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Edgar Bronfman Jr., the head of Universal, the world's biggest music company, predicted in a speech in May that soon "a few clicks of your mouse will make it possible for you to summon every book ever written in any language, every movie ever made, every television show ever produced, and every piece of music ever recorded." In this vast intellectual commons nothing will ever again be out of print or impossible to find; every scrap of human culture transcribed, no matter how obscure or commercially unsuccessful, will be available to all.

It's 2015, 15 years later since that was said by Edgar Bronfman Jr. I find it interesting that we're still not there. It seems that it's getting harder to find out of print publications/books/records, especially if they were somewhat obscure or rare from the beginning.

I don't know why, but I would guess that it's because those works are drowning in the vast and seemingly endless supply of others works. That, combined with it not being digitalized and that the physical representation might have rotted away or on the verge of rotting away.

What do you make out of this?
I do most of my work on my Macbook Pro with 16GB RAM and a 256 SSD.

The frugality comes from the fact that it's not Retina. Big whoop.
One of the vulns in this exploit is fixed, rendering the exploit "useless" in 10.11.

But start the mac hate train regardless - if facts don't count :)
If it is not a false judgment, then what is the problem?
What exactly should be documented? The commands? The service names? The DNS records being sinkholed? The redirect-to-127.0.0.1 trick?

There are blog/post links in various comments in these files, I should note.

I'm not sure how documentation would help with the "might sneak something in" issue either. If anything, if you're feeling paranoid / reasonably cautious, you should ignore the documentation in favor of documentation you source yourself - if you can't trust the author to write the commands, you can't trust the author's documentation of the commands either.
Narrative Resets: Revisiting a Tech Trio (Apple, Facebook and Twitter)
does it bring any advantages over https://metacpan.org/pod/DBD::CSV? (not being perl is not an advantage).
I'm not sure about what distributed systems you are referring to. I might not have worked on anything that complex so far.
I used to find chaining async requests for fetching data from web services across different screens while taking care of variations in app states a bit overwhelming. Now, I tend to start with creating a substantial data model on the app side and unlinking the network calls from the controllers as much as possible to ease this process. Of course many of the things I do now are probably learnt by CS majors in universities. I learnt them the hard way as I am a self taught programmer.
Really ? Did they just add the url icon then ? I never noticed any of it before this year.
> but never in a million years will i download some random .bat file to just click and run.

I think that in this particular case you can trust the random bat file more than Microsofts official binary blob OS.
Demiurge
>What do you make out of this?

You have to know where to look?
I would recommend PlayCanvas [http://playcanvas.com]. :-)

We have an editor tool (like Unity/Unreal), good documentation, a great community of other developers. And the engine is open source if you're not interested using the Editor tools [http://github.com/playcanvas/engine]
A way to get data from remote computers that are not connected to the internet
The Sun is the center of the Universe. Interesting.
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> Bitcoin we all know and love.

That is a great way to make bad decisions about technology. Technology must meet a goal, if it fails to meet a goal you ruthlessly throw it out.

I stopped caring about Bitcoin as a whole a long time ago, if bitcoiners want to ever change the minds of the many people like me then they are going to have to stop using love and start using facts.

This is seriously out of hand. Reserve love for people.
Maybe you are one of them! :-)

It's truly rare to find techies who are more excited to see the end result in the hands of productive and happy end users than they are about the technology used to build said solutions.

The trait is more a mindset, a philosophy of empathy than it is a technical skill of building software.
Regarding quoting support, check out https://github.com/dbro/csvquote
> "cyclists understand gravity, but not wind resistance"

I can assure you that cyclists very much do understand wind resistance.
So Morphis is both a distributed data store and the ultimate solution to human suffering?

"MORPHiS is a global encrypted distributed datastore"

...

"It's about all of us, working together to create the world we want to live in, free from corruption, slavery, evil and manipulation; a vision many have thought impossible, until now."

I'd love to try out Morphis' anti-corruption and anti-manipulation features. Is there an API for these?

Seriously though, the project sounds interesting. It's cool to have a grandiose vision like this, but as the reader, I just don't see how it relates back to the project.
With source code commented in spanish and english.
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While I have faced this issue a few times, especially with some UI elements when moving from 1 version to another, I found that the situation is much better in iOS (deprecated APIs are supported for a while before being removed) when compared to Android (of course, its my anecdotal experience and I'm not trying to generalise here) where some of the APIs were completely dropped or the behaviour was totally different between incremental versions. In our case we we had to implement the same feature in 2 different ways to support 4.0 and 4.1 Android versions.
Thanks for the feedback. I've already added the book you've mentioned on my wish list. Hope to read it soon.
What? Faster internet? Again? How 4G helped? 0. We need power efficient network, not faster one. It would be faster than what you get through fiber. Does that make sense? Shouldn't we focus on making the networks cheap, power efficient and with most possible coverage?
This article screams bulshit to me.
Ironically, Bronfman's vision is closest still only in the piracy world as legitimate licensing requires too much organizational buy-offs to ever be universal.

Interestingly, services like spotify could have only come about after pressure from piracy because the industry would never have conceded such control and monetary loss unless forced to.

Now comes the next wave: video which popcorntime will help force the path.

It's remarkable that progress can be achieved mostly through breaking regulation theses day - there's something these services have in common with uber and airbnb.
What a load of nonsense. The idea that faster and faster wired and wireless broadband open up huge new opportunities just doesn't make any sense to me. 4G just gives me webpages a bit faster, it's not even especially noticeable most of the time. I can already stream 720p video to my phone which is more or less indistinguishable from 1080p at that size. What other massive fast downloads do you need on a mobile device while data caps are still in the low gigabytes?
May I just Godwin this thread by noting that this is not a new idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsches_Stadion
Unions are what you want them to be, just like any other constructed organization. Just like there are many types of businesses (e.g. partnerships, LLC, 501(c)(3), etc), which can be further refined with their charter for specific goals, a union can be defined for whatever purpose you want.

If some of the traditional uses for a union may not be needed in the software industry, it could still be very useful to charter a different type of union. Something like a very minimal union that simply had the goal of protecting against really big things like the recent scandal about cartel-style limiting of salaries. A union that - by it's own charter - only concerns itself with that kind of thing would be very low cost, and would serve to discourage that kind of abuse from happening in the first place.

Arguments for or against unions are useless without first defining what you mean by "union".
Did YC Fellowship Program Accept All Candidates by August 15, 2015?
After applying to YC Fellowship Program and expecting a response on August 15, 2015 per their stated dated, we have been neither accepted nor declined. Did the YC Fellowship Program drop the ball, fail to properly notify, or what? Was any company accepted on August 15, 2015?
Powershell is primarily a repl to a homogeneous .NET-based set of tools, which doesn't describe Unix very well. If you want a type-safe repl that interacts with all the handy tools written for the text-stream-only Unix world you're going to have to do some interpretation.
This is a lose-lose scenario. If you don't trust a closed operating system in the first place, why would you then, after performing these steps, trust the system that it really does what it says it does. The point is that you don't know, and you can never be sure. The solution is to either trust or not, switch or stay, there is no middle path, because any middle path implies some amount of non-trust.
CORRECTION: ...by August 15, 2015?...stated date...
As a person who does not use a smart phone but feels that nobody puts thought into the dumb phones - this has crossed my mind many times. Very very interesting.
The correct response to being chewed out this way is "If I suck so much you must have been a fucking idiot to hire me."
I've tried both and can't stick to low fat. My genotype is carb sensitive. Eating carbs of low nutrient value (bread, grains, pasta ...) makes me hungry. A well formulated low carb diet that has me keto-adapted reduces my appetite dramatically and has me losing 2+ lbs a week. Of course I have to exercise but I have been doing that for years. And I do count calories. It is not hard to stay under my requirement for calories.

It is important to understand what a well formulated low carb diet means. I track protein, carbs and net carbs after fiber. I have targets for each. Fat is mostly from good oils like olive oil.

http://www.amazon.com/Art-Science-Low-Carbohydrate-Living/dp...

The study seems flawed. Low carb diets assert that you need to be keto adapted. That can take weeks. It took about 3 weeks for me. And there may be other benefits of keto adapted diets: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2367001/
That doesn't make much sense. There's no absolute "space" coordinates. Why would a time machine pick some random frame of reference instead of yours? I suppose you're correct, in a tautological sense.
We should catch up sometime!
I'd definitely like try out CurioDB at some point.
They've released a fix for the DYLD bug, and it didn't effect El Capitan anyway. Point of interest, but I had manually changed my sudoers file when I was running Yosemite. I'm now running the El Capitan beta. The sudoers file had been happily unchanged up until the most recent update, when it was reset... I don't know if it's related to concerns over the DYLD bug, but I'm guessing it is.

It's encouraging that of these two major bugs, both didn't work in El Capitan. Not claiming that it's going to be some sort of panacea; I'm sure it's just a matter of time before it gets exploited too. But it's still encouraging.
5G? I'd be happy with reliable 3G coverage in the UK.
The article is from 1990, but the book it is summarizing is from 1982.
I agree. One could say why not in Madagascar, Chad or Laos then.. I would say abolish the Olympics and make smaller much cheaper sports events.
Ask HN: What are best videos to start a day
Hello, I am using my laptop as an alarm clock. I set it up so it starts at time I want to wake up and starts playing some youtube video. I like to watch some kind 5-15m videos that will put me into relentlessly resourceful mood. What is good source of such videos?
What I find both fascinating and at least a little frustrating is that many recent advances in CS are retreads in concept (though not context) of 1970s work.

If this was the year 2050, what would you guys consider adding to the Classics? If it's not there, what do you think should be done? What's really fundamentally changed the way we think about computing? Is this even possible?

To give an example, for me, I think one thing that's worth having a more fundamental understanding of is the extent to which psychology influences the design space of programming languages. E.g, minimizing the amount of things to hold,in your mental stack already influences natural language, so why not PLs as well? We can then automatically design DSLs/GUIs for end users, select people you'd work well with based on how they conceptualize problems, solve the problem of teaching programming, etc.
I also wrote a super-simple version of this, for talking to Raspis and stuff:

https://github.com/skorokithakis/gweet
It might just be me, but i've found manipulating tables and formulae in Org to be nothing but pain. I probably don't understand enough how they work, though (i love and daily use many other Org features though). SES looks pretty fine to me, at first glance!
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Li Haoyi has been doing a lot of cool open source Scala work. Ammonite is an example of that. You can find it here https://github.com/lihaoyi/Ammonite
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FYI: Their contact email address fellowship@ycombinator.com does not work.
i use linux for my personal things, but this is not a very good argument for most people. wouldn't you trade 1 in 100 chance of the spying affecting you for a much more usable OS? Some people i know get Non-metaphorical headaches from trying yo get computer things to work.

Even people who are power users can only use Windows for games and some enterprise apps.

So you either don't use a computer at all or use Windows and sometimes OSX.
It looks like this tool doesn't support semicolon-separated CSV files, quotes, or numbers using a comma as decimal separator. Too bad.

It's a pity that the CSV file format is so fragmented. It's all too common that a CSV file written by tool A can't be read by tool B.

Only very few tools do it right. For example, I think the ruby CSV module has a heuristic to automatically detect the "style" of CSV files, which is pretty neat.
A danger with Amazon since they are not based in California but in Seattle, there is non competition clauses enforced by contract. Amazon has sued ex engineers leaving the company.
http://www.geekwire.com/2014/amazon-sues-employee-taking-goo...

I choose not to choose Amazon.
Quote from the movie Trainspotting
"But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else"
I wonder what percentage of YC ventures have their revenue model based on advertising prospects.
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This was way back in I think 1983, since when successive governments have jiggered about with the system god knows how many times of course!
It's good to read the scripts first. You might want to use some of the "features" this removes e.g. the Windows Store, the msftncsi.com host (network status indicator / captive portal test).
"Reducing labor costs" is what is making them evil, in part
This neatly really illustrates why objects matter.

As cool as miller is, jq is also decidedly cool, but for json. Both claim that they are "like" awk, sed, cut, paste etc, but for $Format, where $Format is csv/tsv and json, respectively.

They both deal with much the same tasks, and there is considerable overlap.

What your PowerShell examples do not say, is how - after Import-Csv - you are no longer constrained to tools written for csv's (or json or ...). At that point the records of the csv file have become objects in the PowerShell type system (which is an extension of the .NET type system).

Another point about the corresponding functionality in PowerShell is how you do not need to convert back to csv, json or whatever. Your Export-Csv commands in your examples are only needed if you want to finally save the results as csv. Otherwise you would just keep the objects in a variable or flowing through the pipeline/script.

So TFAs 2nd example could be written

ipcsv flins.csv | group county -n

If the data had been in json, one would write

cat flins.json | convertfrom-json | group county -n

Which also means that data can be export through any cmdlet that exports or converts a stream of objects: Export-Csv, ConvertTo-Csv, ConvertTo-Html, ConvertTo-Json, ConvertTo-Xml, ...
Your Anime example presents a problem. Anime can't be whipped up quickly with such tools, or it would be low quality.

And to get past the rights issues with including fine examples of Anime on Wikipedia, would be an uphill battle.

I sort of understand what you're saying, but Wikipedia is only part of the puzzle of information. That's why we have the "Internet"!

It's perfectly fine to link out to Youtube videos or channels from a Wikipedia page about mechanical systems or CAD specific topics.
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Miller looks very useful, and so does q. Thanks to the op and to you for the introductions.
I've received an e-mail from YC in which they say that they'll send out interview invitations on August 18. Due to the large number of applications, they needed a few extra days to read them.
Malware comes precompiled and ready to run, it doesn't depend on you having a compiler installed.
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Thx for link. Yes anyone who gives in to geo-blocking these days is a bit behind the times!
Introduction to UIStackView in iOS 9
I actually enjoyed this intro to react. (Even tho PrivacyBadger gave me a hard time with JSBin).
Cool idea and thanks for implementing morph.is.

How does it compare with ipfs?
Clickable: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B013YFIQ30
True that! I'm looking at you, homebrew ..
Nice to know that VLC takes youtube urls. The compressor didn't improve the sound for me though.
That complex has been used many times and is currentlybbeing partially used. It just never was the hotel it was supposed to be due to war and cold war.
Like when does it make sense to have a business representation of your data in a language like F#? I'd say as soon as you want the full expressive power and safety of records and discriminated unions. Our domain representation was substantially different from what would easily fit in a relational database, so we start with it from the beginning.

In C#, I think ORM classes have a lot going on, so I prefer to use them only for converting to a data structure.
Clicked on Bali.

$5000/week + flight cost + food + insurance ._.

If your startup does this without having the profit to do it then this has to be the biggest waste of investor capital.
I'm quite familiar with the CLI, composer, Lumen, Slim, Symfony, Laravel.. This is not the issue.

The thing is that I'm stating to feel that PHP bundles are getting "outdated". Where in Django or RoR you could set-up an oauth server and link it to your app in 20 minutes, in PHP the quality of the bundles and documentation make using stuff like that "hard".

I'm starting to see that maybe Node (sails.js) + Angular are probably a good starting point.
Powershell has some pitfalls of its own (I still much prefer it to Bash despite these):

1. Dynamic scoping
2. Squashing lists of size 0 to nulls and
size 1 to single elements when they come out of pipes.
3. Incomprehensible API for XML handling.

On the other hand, when a Powershell program starts getting too big, it's pretty trivial to port parts of it to one of the other .NET languages.
Persistent “pipes” in Linux
> This is a lose-lose scenario. If you don't trust a closed operating system in the first place

I don't trust open systems either. I don't have the time to audit them. If I did, I wouldn't trust myself to catch everything. I don't trust "enough eyes make all bugs shallow" either.

Case in point: Canonical written "features" in Ubuntu, and OpenSSL bugs in general.

> why would you then, after performing these steps, trust the system that it really does what it says it does.

Don't trust: verify with wireshark? Alternatively, trust the people who wrote this to have run wireshark. Alternatively, "Trust but verify."

I generally trust Microsoft and FOSS to not be actively malicious on their own behalf.

I trust neither Microsoft nor FOSS to do their privacy due diligence, write perfect software, to be free of capitalistic or engineering pressure to add privacy harming features, nor to be free from subversion by state actors (NSA etc.)

What's your superior counter-proposal, under these conditions?

> The point is that you don't know, and you can never be sure.

Fundamental truth of computing, not "windows 10". I can't even trust the code I write myself to be free of security or privacy issues due to my own mistakes or lack of consideration.

> The solution is to either trust or not, switch or stay, there is no middle path, because any middle path implies some amount of non-trust.

I reject the thesis that trust is binary. Were I to accept it, I trust nobody - everyone is vulnerable to being subverted by blackmail, intimidation, making mistakes, etc.

Trust of system is also not the only factor influencing my use of a system. I trust a deeply buried cement brick more than any computer, but I can't use the web with it. I have very different trust needs for my bank servers, my workstation, my catstation, and my gaming console.
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Hello, thanks for sharing, yes - it looks similar in its core idea, will definitely look at code base and hopefully find something interesting to learn from. One of current Centrifugo problems is that lots of features out of the box result in not so trivial client. So as far as I personally don't know Java and Objective-C/Swift there are no clients for mobile apps yet. Hopefully this will change in future with help of open-source community. Or maybe Go 1.5 mobile apps support will allow to create shared library for using from those languages.
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Ask HN: SaaS forum with integrated login
Hi Hacker News,

We are looking for a forum software to integrate into secapps.com. Is there a SaaS product out there that already does that? The requirements are:

* Integrated login - once logged in via secapps.com you are logged in into the forum as well
* Fairly good looking and customisable
* Flexible pricing plan - it may be used by more than 50,000 customers

Help is much appreciated. Feel free to provide your shameless plug.
I'm sure that is for a group and a high end property in...what looks like Ubud. Still, not very worth it, they had a $1,300 K option that seemed to be in a semi renovated traditional hotel, I'd still be pretty cautious.

A nice property will run $200-$300/night in Bali, and there is no real offseason thanks to the winter-flipped Australians. Though with the costs in austrailia being as they are, it might make sense for them.
In the InfoQ article this topic ponts to, I've said something about this.

The short answer is that it is not derived from existing Haskell compilers.
I agree that the scripts are very readable, but even if therobot24 might be able to understand them, there are many people who wont. Verifying it yourself doesn't work for the non-hacker crowd.

The solution is that someone trustworthy vouches for the files.
Fine on Chrome 44 running on a fairly ancient Core 2 Duo
Does 5G bring forward secrecy and strong end-to-end encryption for phone calls and texts? If not, why not? The likes of AT&T don't want to upset their spymasters?
I think most of it did; could you give a specific program that you're thinking of?

In any event, certainly much of what he published was unambiguously legal.
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