jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> A bigger legal problem is the copyright question.

_Unfortunately_, statutory licensing means that you can license most commercial music for your station for a couple hundred per year ( https://www.prometheusradio.org/music-licensing-noncommercia... ). Considering the investment of time that goes into scheduling, promoting, etc. a successful station the licensing costs aren't that big a deal.

I say unfortunately because the existence of blanket rates and in particular compulsory licensing has undermined the free market, and as a result new/independent performers have a much harder time getting aired because they essentially can't compete in terms of price (e.g. you can play our stuff free!) because almost every station/venue is already paying blanket rates and doesn't have much marginal cost in playing the commercial stuff.
I'm a bit disappointed the frontend uses javascript. I was hoping for handwritten webassembly.
Neither the US nor China is fascist. Fascism means something quite specific, and quite context-sensitive. It has unsurprisingly become a bad word after fascists lost WW2, but it still means something beyond "dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, etc."

It's like characterizing communism by mass starvation, political assassinations, etc. Clearly that's not what Marx was writing about, was it?
> I would normally link to the wikipedia article on it but that's been defaced by capital-S Skeptics and reduced to a note crapping on the whole thing as "discredited".

a lot of Wikipedia is like this
I wonder if binge drinking culture is a factor here?
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Vuex is going in direction of pinia. While Vuex has a v3 compatible build, it is there to ease migration, not as recommended for new vue 3 users
"The writers are given an opportunity to publish pieces that they've written for the love of writing."

Wow.

For Christmas I bought the wife a subscription to The Economist.

I wanted something to wrap, so I picked up the current issue at Barnes&Noble (surprisingly, neither Walgreen nor Safeway had it). It happened to be the year-end double-issue.

I saw the suit article; now I'm curious about the other articles, since I bet their authors have made them interesting by virtue of their own enthusiasm.
If a dumb phone was even more reliable and had greater battery life etc, would it make much difference to you?

If a smart phone was even more reliable and had greater battery life etc, would it make much difference to you?

That's disruption. I guess there's a real question as to whether smart phones will keep becoming more powerful, thus keeping battery life short (like Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away). But certainly, there could be smart phones with today's performance, but with the same reliability and battery life as current dumb phones, it's just a matter of when (prolly not in 3 months!)
Great, now make the app itself in HTML5. ;)
if you liked that besure toread "The Most Powerful Idea" - about steam innovation, parallels to software issues are weirdly very similar.

http://blog.collins.net.pr/2010/08/most-powerful-idea-in-wor...
I actually want to downgrade to a dumb phone but having trouble finding something "simple" enough (if that makes sense). I don't want any bells/whistles other than maybe bluetooth.

Suggestions? (I'm on tmobile)
this developers life http://thisdeveloperslife.com/
Also:

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

or

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
The physical printing is smaller.
When bicycling I prefer when it doesn't rain ice cold rain almost everyday from October to March, and when it's not windy every single day (though as a kitesurfer I don't complain about THAT).

It's also not ideal when the sun both rises and sets while you're at work, so you have to bike in the dark everyday for three months. But that's strictly speaking not about climate...

And that's Copenhagen. Stockholm is worse in every possible way, darker, colder (OK, it's not as windy) and few bike lanes. Still, more people bike there than in LA or Miami.
This is currently done using Kik, Snapchat, and something called "onlyfans" which is what Twitter would be if you could charge people to follow you.
It requires violence on behalf of the authorities sometimes to keep violent intruders out, just like it's required to catch criminals or deflect a hostile army's attack. That doesn't make it bad. In practice, authorities exert no violence at borders e.g. in most European countries, even the threat of violent action is very low nowadays - that's why they are easily overrun.
I don't think all forms of shame is induced by society and is party intrinsic of human sexual behavior. Most see intimacy as contrarian to overly public display and see it devalued by the perceived vulgarity.

And I think there can be some truth to that. Culture often was defined by the absence of anything sexual, since it was believed to adhere to higher forms of aesthetics instead of intrinsic sexual urges.

I think everyone should decide what constitutes the correct balance for themselves. It is just that these transgression of shame are mostly attributed to sex workers to their disadvantage.

But there aren't only happy sex workers and I think it isn't difficult to comprehend why people might want to refrain from engaging in intimacy with sex workers at all. Because to them intimacy cannot be reduced to stress relieve or their own fantasies. I don't think it is that bizarre.

But it is a huge problem if sex workers get penalized because they transgress your own personal boundaries.
The article has quite a nice introduction to deep learning concepts, but the headline claim of building an ID card reader from scratch is little more than "use our API".
After reading through this thread, my impression is more like VNC being the only use-case that is not covered enough yet. What are the other uncovered use-cases?

EDIT: Okay, VNC and xmodmap.
Clusterfuck? I just installed nvidia-driver and it sets itself up.
"Asking to leave WhatsApp is like cancelling your contract with yout ISP and going offline just because you don't like the company."

Hopefully the reason this is at the top is not this sentence.

This hallucinatory idea is exactly what Facebook PR, a.k.a. "damage control", wants people to believe.

You have no contract with Facebook. You pay them nothing. There is no legal recourse whatsoever. You cannot enforce "your end of the bargain" because Facebook undertakes no obligations to you.

Say what you want about the quality of your internet or cellular provider's service, etc., or how much you hate a company, but the fact is they have to fulfill their contractual obligations and provide service, they cannot just do whatever they want, whenever they want, as Facebook can.

If the internet/cellular provider does not deliver, then there is no Facebook. Whereas Facebook could disappear if their advertisers stop paying and the internet would still be here, because people would still be paying for internet access, and internet users would still use the internet to do all the same things they do now, and more.

Practically speaking, you may treat a tech company like a common carrier, like a telephone/internet/cellular provider. After all to the user it may seem no different. It is accessed through a "phone" and it seems to work like the service they pay for through an ISP or cellular provider.

But the minute you say this is like a "contract" you are submitting to pure delusion. You have no contract with Facebook as a user and you pay nothing. You're a product not a customer. Facebook has essentially zero exposure to liability from user complaints and that is why you are reading so many complaints about them, e.g., on HN. The best a user can do is rant into the aether and pound sand. There is no contract to enforce!

Then there is the absurdity of pretending that access to one company's computers is equivalent to access to the entire internet. This is like saying cancelling your subscription to AOL is like cancelling your account with your ISP. Today, no one is naive enough to equate AOL with the internet, as people once did. But Facebook believes people are naive enough to equate "Facebook" with "the internet". No doubt the AOL phenomena is a running joke at Facebook. The more things "change" the more they stay the same.

Do whatever you want, but let's refrain from propagating illusions that tech companies want people to believe.
Nah. Even his own party is calling him out.
RTGs are also used on a lot of US and Russian deep space missions...
Thanks for the cooleness mention, always makes me smile! I thought the same thing and started thinking about a port. Then I discovered that is was simpler to just skip the jQuery part and use Javascript only instead.

1, you can use whatever color you want. Either you call progressbar.color() with an HTML valid color or you use the provider like this:

app.config(function(progressbarProvider){
// Default color is firebrick
progressbarProvider.setColor('firebrick');
// Default height is 2px
progressbarProvider.setHeight('2px');
});

2, I will have to look into that

3, and the same with this bug

Thanks a lot for checking it out and telling valuable feedback!
I hope to be working outside the house soon. That will change a lot since I am not distracted by stuff that goes on here. (Live across tram track, hospital and behind all that there is a firehouse)
Based on the article and the Reddit discussion, that is not correct. It's more like this:

Scenario #1:

Alice and Bob both make changes. Alice pulls Bob's change and merges it. Bob makes a second change. Alice pulls the second change and merges it.

Scenario #2:

Alice and Bob both make changes. Bob makes a second change. Alice pulls Bob's changes and merges.

The final result, which is Alice's change merged with Bob's two changes, ends up different in the two cases, and there were no merge conflicts.
remove the drm using calibre, it takes a minute and allows you to read books from amazon using ibooks.
The OP does mention that.
I certainly made a mistake here I think. I normally try to avoid mentioning what my startup is or use examples so that it comes across as something people can relate to their own situation, and also so that it doesn't seem self-promotional, since that definitely isn't the intention. Reading back through I can see how it was not clear. I've added the actual "point of view" I'm adopting in my current startup as an example in the second paragraph of the "What does it mean to have a point of view?" section. Thanks for pointing this out, I hope it is a lot clearer now!
this is why i never comment at HN. the guy is in a bind, i offer some advice to help him get some more/better interest from people and this is the attitude i get in response. makes for a frustrating experience.
Specially when the code is legacy and rotten.
Just in response to the parent poster stating that Facebook could become a closed internet, requiring an FB login to access content.
This reads as though MathWorks finally decided to do something with their acquisition of Agility MCS, which as I recall was an awesome product until MW pulled it off the market. MCS generated truly readable C code and allowed great traceability between the generated code and the original Matlab source.

In fact, looking at Matlab's site (http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab-coder/) it looks identical to MCS.
I doubt Apple would spend it all in one place, but it has more than $60 billion lying around just in cash reserves alone. Also, Apple has a market cap of $300 billion, that dwarfes Comcast's $60 billion.

http://www.asymco.com/2011/01/19/20-billionyr-apples-cash-gr...
Have you heard of Code Club¹? It's aimed at 9-11 year olds, so younger than your audience, but you might want to examine their curriculum. They work in Scratch, and AFAIK focus more on "programmer thinking" - understanding conditionals, loops, and events. There's also the Logo turtles².

I think the most important elements are fun, immediacy of feedback, and relevance. When you're working with Scratch you can see what happens immediately, and it makes it easy to explore changes. ("What happens if I change this number? What happens if I invert this conditional?" etc.) Making your own game or making a robot move is far more interesting and relevant than printing text or working with test data.

¹ https://www.codeclub.org.uk/
² http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_(robot)
Scheduled maintenance:

http://www2.ebay.com/aw/announce.shtml
There is 'This Week in Rust': http://cmr.github.io/blog/categories/this-week-in-rust/
Even before self driving cars, google might be able to offer a shared cab/minivan services that are pretty competitive with cars, if they have enough demand.

Some relevant research is in [1], which i think is implemented in the new finish public transportation service kutsuplus.fi.

And such a service could be great help in rapid transition to self driving cars - capital demands will be smaller, and profitability higher, and much faster to reach critical mass/lockout.

[1]http://www.floating-content.net/~esa/pub/files/jokinen-fists...
Dictionaries also contain the words "ain't", "widdershins", "gallimaufry", and "cunt". Just because words exist or just because they have one possible meaning doesn't mean that suddenly you are forced to use them or ignore instances where language is used in a way you dislike. Go ahead and call people out on uses of the word "literally" in a figurative sense, there's nothing stopping you whether that usage is recorded in a dictionary or not.
Small businesses are run by people.

Large businesses are run by processes and paperwork.
#2 is a big one. If there's one HN ethos that I disagree with, it's the idea that a better engineered solution is always a better solution (full stop). Unless you have infinite time and developers, that's not true.
I think many people are missing the point. I'd say the emphasis in the title is more on the "need" than the "don't".

Sometimes, you're in the terminal and something needs to be done quickly and knowing the correct command might be the best option. The author is merely trying to help people out with some useful commands for these instances.

I would, however, prefer that the author recommended using the interactive and verbose option for commands like `cp`, `mv` and `rm`, which I've personally found super helpful. Here's what I have in my `config.fish` (with a bonus for cp that preserves "mode, ownership and timestamps"):

alias rm="rm -iv"

alias mv="mv -iv"

alias cp="cp -piv"
> The article was talking about the British one.

I checked again and it doesn't seem so. It's about mutation D614G which was the mutation that caused first wave of the pandemic globally in the spring 2020 and probably beginning of second wave in the autumn before it was overshadowed by British variant B.1.1.7

It was milder and more easily transmissible than the original virus variant that was detected in China and that's what the article you cited is about.

B.1.1.7 appears to be both more easily transmissible and more deadly than D614G.
Imagine the algorithm recommending hip-hop because you have dark skin and African-like facial features.

It's maybe not that bad of the grand scheme of things, but it's inarguably racist.
The same applies for a bunch of other languages with a character that's "s" with diacritic modifier, and ctrl-s as save isn't as bad - the most horrible case of this that I had was an old version of outlook webmail that I had to use for one client rarely, where ctrl-s was bound to 'send'. With no option to re-bind or disable it. So about half of the time when I'd get to writing an email it got sent in the middle of the sentence right before where a letter ś would be... And since I had to use it rarely, I never got used to it enough to switch keybord layouts.
Thank you for the insight, explanation was easy to follow even for someone not related to that kind of work.
Yeah, because that's way faster and more convenient than double clicking on an icon.

It is if you happen to have both hands on the keyboard.

That said, I usually navigate a GUI file explorer using the keyboard too, so pressing Enter to open a file is even faster.

(This comment was submitted entirely using the keyboard.)
Taking geopolitical consideration out of this, it just seems like it is bad for the global economy to concentrate any one competency in only one region. I am tired of the China is bad mmmkay song and dance. We need to move manufacturing to at least one other different continent for everyone’s sake...
Q: What daily habit do you believe has the largest positive impact on your life?

A: Showering

Q: Would you ever consider becoming a politician?

A: Unlikely
> Efficient market hypothesis discussions are pointless imo, because it's obviously untrue ...

So cash in. Since you think the EMH is "obviously untrue", you can drain the market of its capital based on your proven theory and your inside track on the truth.

In fact, plenty of evidence suggests that the EMH is true, but that the present equities market can't reliably demonstrate this fact because of widespread cheating.

I should add that, because of the nature of equities trading and markets in general, it's very doubtful that anyone will ever prove this issue one way or another in a scientific sense.
SGI died; Rackable is using the name.

Young people here might not remember, but the death of SGI has a story very similar to HP and Nokia -- an ex-microsoftie is hired to head the company, decides to abort the previously successful (but not successful enough) core product (Irix, Meego, DYNAMO) and switch to being a Microsoft serf.

SGI died.

HP's relevant division died.

The story of Nokia is still being rewritten -- but it seems the spirit had already died (and reincarnated in Jolla), and the corpse is being reanimated by Microsoft.
"Federal Government and State Attorneys General Reach $25 Billion Agreement with Five Largest Mortgage Servicers to Address Mortgage Loan Servicing and Foreclosure Abuses"

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/February/12-ag-186.html

It's not jail, but then again, I highly doubt Karpeles or anyone at Gox will be imprisoned, either (for a number of reasons).
Judges use the four factor test. But all four factors get weight, not just one. See: http://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/four-factors/

The factor you claim is not relevant is factor #4 on that list.

This work is also transformative, as it's a new kind of work rather than a verbatim copy, though the extent to which it is transformative might be debatable. This is considered one of the most important factors, as well.

You are correct that copying the entire work weighs heavily against (but, importantly, does not preclude) a finding of fair use, but it's not clear that it actually copies the entire movie.

After all, it may cover the entire plot, but it simply does not cover the entire content. You cannot simply stitch the frames together and get the original, you'd get a slide show instead of a movie.

That aside, I'm not convinced that this would be a slam dunk for either side in court.
Little to non is lost in tax revenue due to hollywood accounting; The money and taxes are accounted for in other entities.

It's just the reporting of anything other than gross (and contracts based on that reporting) is misleading.
After looking it up, the seizure wasn't related to the Silk Road case. It was because MtGox wasn't properly registered as a money transmitter and was operating their accounts in the US under false pretenses [1].

I don't think it's necessarily possible to link the Dowalla event to Silk Road directly (which was the FBI, not DHS).

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/16/mt-gox-dwolla-account-money...
Would its plugin / scripting library even be allowed? I don't know the specifics of the OSX app store rules.
Good Karma was evolving from idea to actual product with people involved. We still had full time jobs while working on this and never got an interview.

Backspaces went from 1,000 users (first application) to 60,000 users in the 6 months since we'd first applied. We worked on this full time and we got an interview the second time.

We re-applied along the way because we had progressed and gotten better at everything each time. We never even got an interview until 5th or 6th time.

Note: If you somehow get face time with one of the partners and you impress them, you will likely get an interview. We made that happen and then got an interview.
But you could sell shares to non-founders. That way you have the same path to profitability but none of the extra costs.
Theoretically the goal is to allow some forms of desired prioritization without giving these natural monopolies a huge club to beat service providers up with.

We want to be able to do prioritization of packets. QoS is not inherently evil. A smarter network can fully serve more clients for the same $$$ of infra, by understanding and prioritizing packets which are more or less sensitive to latency and/or packet loss.

The problem is we simply can't trust the ISPs, and there's no choice / no competition to switch to when they misbehave. And as we can see, it's very difficult to write a law which only allows these "acceptable" forms of QoS.

For example, if a customer wants lower latency on their VPN tunnel used for 4K HD video conferencing from home to the office, is it OK for Comcast to offer a higher priced plan to the consumer to get that? I think we want to keep these options open, and saying it has to be an opt-in service and show up on the consumers bill is an interesting middle-ground.

The other part is ensuring the baseline service is actually providing what they say it is, and if you can't get a reliable 5Mbps netflix stream to work 95% of the time on your "50Mbps" plan then they are failing their baseline SLA and customers should be entitled to refunds.
How are the millions funded?
Any decent Android app?
So there's also a mode that displays all the things that the IDE can possibly do I'm curious, how do I turn that mode on?
this article provides a good rebuttal to the IARC

http://www.forbes.com/sites/henrymiller/2015/03/20/march-mad...

tl;dr: the IARC report bases its conclusion on the potential hazard rather than the actual risk. Regulatory agencies like Germany's BfR which review a lot more data have concluded that there is no "carcinogenic or mutagenic properties"
> Not something chosen from a known list of possibilities, but any task that a human could conceivably be taught to perform in less than an hour. Anything from writing a sonnet in iambic pentameter to assembling ikea furniture based on instructions. A true test of _general_ intelligence.

The sad thing is I happen to know humans who would utterly fail at this (which, I know, is not invalidating the fact that a computer passing this would be worthwhile, but care has to be taken as to what that means), routinely challenging my faith in mankind.