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And btw that's one of the winning points of PHP. Let me find some great documentation for you: http://php.net . That's it, one link is enough.
The first implementation of IPFS is written in Go, and it includes fully functional nodes, http gateways, and libraries, but they're also working on a node.js version (that's also compatible with browser environments) so that non-technical users can have ipfs sites "just work". (although it requires at least static content served from a "normal" http/html server)
CERN still uses AFS extensively for all users' files. I believe they use a forked version of OpenAFS. My experience with it at CERN has been okay. It's been fine to use locally, but transatlantic over the Internet can be very slow (it does work eventually though).

I'm not sure if there are any alternatives that work any better over long distance. I suppose CERN also has CVMFS [1], which is a read-only caching filesystem that retrieves the files from upstream via HTTP. This works much better, but it is read-only so only satisfies certain use cases.

[1] http://cernvm.cern.ch/portal/filesystem
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Of course you can champion public libraries, and simultaneously oppose file sharing. Don't be ridiculous!

All it takes is either illogical, inconsistent thinking, or logically invalid thinking. There's no barrier to either of these, in theory or practice.
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How do you work with these terminal-based password managers? Request the password (à la `passbox get facebook`) and then copy 'n' paste it into the website?

Are there any security concerns of the password being in the clipboard/memory (beyond the obvious of accidentally pasting it)?
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More modern libraries also offer ebooks, so the comparison becomes closer as libraries modernize.
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We experience all of those things too, right down to remote desktop "cloud" computing
It looks like DTS from MS SQL Server. Is it a competing product?
There's the teensiest difference between cynically encouraging people to vote, because nonvoters tend to be more Democratic than voters, and cynically trying to prevent black people from voting, because black voters tend to be more Democratic than nonblacks.
Last thing I read bout it was in the Guardian:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/07/new-clue-voynic...

They seem to think it has Mexican origin
This is a fairly nice quasiquotation tutorial: https://www.fpcomplete.com/user/marcin/quasiquotation-101
With all due respect to all involved I read his comment as geographic population density.

I've lived in voting districts where the election was in the basement of my dorm, in the suburban subdivision's elementary school, and in a rural area where voting was a good 10 minute highway drive. Obviously theres a big difference in "get out the vote" when one voter is pound on the dorm door and tell them to press the "B" button in the elevator, than some rural district where each voter represents like a quart of gasoline burned.
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The article assumes that if you defend public libraries, you must defend them for the same reason the author defends them, and that particular reason happens to fit well with file sharing.

But there are other reasons to defend public libraries than simply the fact that they disseminate knowledge and this is worth carving out an exception in copyright. I think most people would defend public libraries on the basis of the doctrine of first sale: after an author sells a copy of a work, they can't control how you use it. As long as you're not making unauthorized copies of it, you can lend it out or do whatever else you like with it.
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M68000 wasn't a minority architecture at the time Apple adopted it. It was a workstation workhorse. That's part of what justified the Lisa's $10,000 price in 1983. But a lot of it was margin and hence a year later 68000 Macs could be sold for less than a quarter that price but still offer incredible performance on a personal computer. By adopting a *nix based OS, Apple reduced most hardware compatibility issues to recompilation, performance of course being another matter.

As for the dark days of Apple in the PC market and the deaths of Commodore and Atari, my recollection is that it had more to do with the stock market crash of 1987 tightening access to capital and the S&L crisis that followed it creating a recession where downsizing was what corporations not empty-nesters did.
Thanks for the correction! Somehow forgot the fixed length output requirement of hashing functions.
> rspec + capybara is much more enjoyable and maintainable

It looks like it's limited to testing web sites and is not really useful for me. Gherkins can be adapted for all kind of tests (even if I agree that it's far from perfect).
Sure it does. Current taxi system is screwing everybody. Break their monopoly with competition, and fairer prices result. Only traditional taxi drivers suffer, if they don't join the new competitive system.
>"Uber is losing hundreds of millions of dollars."

This has no effect on founders or early investors; they'll get rich anyway. This is Silicon Valley, where empires are built losing hundreds of millions of dollars.
I wonder how many of those can survive being on the cover of HN.
> In fact, I don't even know where/how one would place such a bet.

http://www.oddschecker.com/politics/us-politics/us-president...

Lots of people taking bets.
A "real-world" library's goal of knowledge-sharing is balanced with the need of the content-provider to make some money to support distribution and authoring of books. The public pays taxes to fund libraries so that people who can't afford to buy (or choose to not buy) particular books can still access them. There's a natural brake on distribution in that each copy can be checked out to at most one library patron at a time.

The most direct analogy carried over to the electronic space is e-book lending systems with built-in DRM. These systems usually keep the N-number-of-copies-available-for-loan restriction in place. Unlimited file-sharing does not at all resemble the balance between the-good-of-public-knowledge vs the-right-and-need-for-publishers-and-authors-to-make-money that a physical library model provides.
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As I said, "traveling legally with a gun has its own litany of issues". Guns are legal in all states (NY included), with limitations. A Henry or Marlin Papoose .22LR will break down into a very small package, and are legal in pretty much any state without paperwork.
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I don't think Intel sees anyone on the PC space as a major threat, so they aren't in a hurry to make everything perfect all the time.
You can bet either way here https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/#/politics/market/1.10...

It's a peer to peer platform. Approx £500k punted on the US president so far on betfair.

For what it's worth Nate Silver thinks he has no chance.
How is reading a book different of watching a movie? When I'm done, I can return the book/delete the movie.

The only difference is outlined in the article: the movie can be watched simultaneously by different people who got it, whilst I'm the only one with the book in my hands.
> TV shows, Movies, Porn and Games which sorry claiming that they are akin to a public library is just blasphemous

How is it blasphemous to claim a book, a movie, and a game are just different forms of art, and should be treated the same - as art?

I can understand some people have objections to porn, but then, Safo books are in libraries.
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It might be possible to do some sort of self contained data structure that authenticates everybody and only allows authorized access to it, which solves the Byzantine Generals problem like BitCoin does, and which resists forking and instead uses vector clocks and Operational Transformations to consolidate actions done to the tree. But even so, how would it resolve conflicts? It could be a long time until a conflict is discovered, and then do edits get dropped, or what?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption

My understanding is that it is possible, and Turing-complete systems can be built, but they are slow and unwieldy, requiring a large amount of cyphertext to encode data (on the order of 4KB per float, I seem to recall).

It's still up for debate whether or not such techniques will eventually be up for general distributed computing, e.g. distributing a VM instance over multiple distributed servers; or just for specific use-cases, e.g. bitcoin-esque distribution of small transactions, etc.
Movies, TV shows, games and music is all part of our common culture. The question is then if children who partakes in culture do better than those who are deprived, and what impact it has on their life.

One thing I am sure of is that there is no single artist in the world that isn't also a consumer of art. You don't become a great musician if you don't have access and listen to other peoples music, and you don't become a great movie director without watching other peoples movies. Same should be true for games, painting, and writing. If we removed all non-educational book from public libraries we should see a direct decrease in the number of writers that exist.
For the last couple of releases it's been called Integration Services, but yeah NiFi looks very similar to it.
Like I said in my other reply. I think he lacks the charisma, command, and authority necessary in a President and I think his handling of the OA 206 protesters at his Seattle Rally is pretty telling of how he'd flounder in that role.
Yes, it is different. It differs in efficiency.

Not an irrelevant difference. A public library is funded and maintained by the same community that uses it. The manual processes required to consume the material are a natural check in the process and the result is a mild shift in equilibrium. Communities benefit and libraries are legitimate customers, so publishers are at least still getting paid.

File sharing's equilibrium is nowhere near as balanced as the library. And equilibrium matters. It's the difference between a healthy and stable ecosystem and a rodent plague (https://youtu.be/zWVw-j8eYSk).
The author states:

"You would frequently hear that authors are paid royalties when their books are borrowed from a library. This claim is not true. "

I'm not sure what he's trying to say. In the UK, public libraries are part of the PLR scheme in which 1,000 annually-rotated libraries provide their lending details which are then scaled-up in a linear fashion and the royalties calculated on that basis.

It does mean that low-volume authors might not receive royalties one year if their loans were not sampled, but the concept is that they'd receive out-of-proportion royalties the next year when the sample set rotated.

The only reason a sample was used instead of direct measurement was due to the volume of data; automation could nowadays calculate per-author royalties on an all-branches basis.

Source: I summer-jobbed in a library back in the mid-90s and compiled the PLR statistics for the branch.

https://www.plr.uk.com/libraryInformation/sampleLibLists.htm
> uses a set of trusted servers

This uses a set of untrusted servers, so it's different. Also, trust use-cases come in a lot of different flavors, so the comparison of 'wants' is pretty thin.
It isn't free to design for serviceability. It can compromise heat transfer, have more assembly steps (more screws), increase the part count (access panels and gaskets).

That said, the newer Mac Mini is much better than the old one in this regard. Some steps were made to reorder the layers in the package, so you no longer have to remove ALL the screws (25? 30?)
Almost funny enough to upvote! But... no. :)
NeXT fixed this problem by adding an extra mouse button (NeXT machines therefore had two mouse buttons instead of one like Macs) and moving the menu to that button. Voila – the menu is instantly available at all times. Note that the right mouse button was not used for anything else, it was exclusively reserved for showing the menu of the active program.
Agreed. You could say that public libraries have a natural limit to their degree of sharing, whereas online filesharing does not.

For instance, when a popular book comes out the library might have a couple copies. If hundreds want to read those copies then they'll have to wait. Many of those people will be unwilling to wait and buy the book instead, which supports the author.
I think the fundamental misunderstanding here is that you can't search by author. You can fetch by IPFS hash or IPNS pubkey (which is tied to a hash). You can also use existing name services (such as DNS or namecoin) to tie human-meaningful names to a pubkey or hash. (but probably a pubkey)
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One, I don't think asking for some modest thought and compassion in the face of glib, facile plans is the exact problem SF has. But thanks for sharing your feelings so dramatically; I hope it was cathartic for you.

And two, I think things are working out reasonably well for SF. The US has a history of absolutely terrible attempts at grand redevelopment. Read up on our "urban renewal" waves, for example. San Francisco has mostly avoided or repaired that sort of urban planning idiocy, and I think it would be monumentally dumb to let another bubble lead to big "solutions" to problems that are transitory.

If you and others would like to indulge that third-world dictator tendency to dramatic urban planning, might I suggest finding someplace else in the Bay Area? San Francisco is less than 1% of the land; there's no particular reason to do it here. Or, better, show us how it's done in, say, Texas, which has plenty of space to develop that nobody is currently occupying.
Many comments here compare the cost of a physical library to near-zero cost of the internet, but that's not a fair comparison itself.

The cost of a physical library is physical, not informational. The article describes a situation where information sharing was challenged by the industry that has a physical monopoly on media (books). They were not granted informational monopoly, they only have monopoly on physical manufacturing.

Thus the absence of physical cost (or difference in efficiency) of sharing information does not change the concept of a library.
Beautiful - in my opinion, a great example of fancy interactive graphics enhancing both the appearance and the ease of understanding an article. Great work!
Is that not one of the most common analogies used by Pirates, the similarities between file sharing and lending a book or movie to a friend? That argument has failed for file sharing, what makes your argument different?
Well, I read the article, and the author's point about a library being for knowledge-sharing is misleading and possibly even dishonest. It's over-emphasized and ignores other important realities about how and why a library works the way it does.
Yes, and that's the doctrine of first sale: you can do what you like with a copy you own, besides make additional unauthorized copies.

As such, libraries operate within the law and within the spirit of copyright, while file sharing doesn't.

You can certainly object to the spirit of copyright as expressed here, but there's nothing inconsistent about supporting it, and supporting public libraries.
It's not just that—not every Missouri-side Kansas City address goes to KCMO schools. Many don't. Everything north of the river, for example. Source: my wife has been teaching or subbing in the region for years, we have a KCMO address, and we're ~8 miles away from the nearest KCMO school district boundary. Some of the non-KCMO districts serving KCMO addresses are damn good, actually (Platte, for example).

There appears to be some confusion of KCMO the school district with KCMO the city (let alone the metro area).

I noted that elsewhere, and got down voted for it for some reason. There's segregation, yes, but it doesn't work quite the way that's implied, even if we only consider the city proper—I highly doubt a majority of white people in KCMO are sending their kids to private schools. In the KCMO school district, OK, that could be. Maybe I came off as defending the situation, despite calling out that there is indeed segregation? Who knows.
You say "only" as if this isn't an important distinction in terms of creating value for a copyrighted work.
Eh, JITs aren't the most complicated things on the planet. There's plenty of people who can do it outside of QuickTransit. Like, look inside most emulators.
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Of course you can, but it requires accepting that copyright is an imperfect practical compromise between opposing goals, and not some platonic ideal.
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Andrew Ng, the man behind the excellent ML course on coursera, has an introduction to Deep Learning using Matlab.

[1]: Wiki with code, exercises and explanation

[2]: Video lecture one with a recap on back-propagation

[3]: Video lecture two on Sparse Auto Encoders

[4]: Handouts

In terms of books, Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning [5] is Matlab based. So is the Handbook of Monte Carlo methods [6].

[1]: http://ufldl.stanford.edu/wiki/index.php/UFLDL_Tutorial

[2]: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs294a/video1.html

[3]: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs294a/video2.html

[4]: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs294a/handouts.html

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And the other guys are even generating a hardware (plus a compiler toolchain) out of an ISA spec: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISA_(Language_for_Instruction...
>Wyoming voters made up 0.193% of the total popular vote in 2012. That would earn them a total of one electoral vote. In reality Wyoming gets 3.

and they get the same amount of senators as California or NY. This is why US politics will always lean conservative. There are just too many "fly over states" with tiny conservative populations that have an undue influence on national elections.

All too often "money in politics" are blamed for the lack of liberal or progressive changes in the nation. That's a red herring for the most part, or at least, problem #2. With a system like this its very difficult to put in liberal reforms. Hell, Obamacare, which is pretty much a Reagan-era proposal, barely got passed with a Democratic majority in almost all branches of government. Even after passing, its been endlessly disputed with at least two major losses to the law via SCOTUS. Those courts? Packed with conservative leaning judges by POTUS, who has a major advantage to winning if he's a conservative. This stuff comes full circle and starts with the over-representation of lowly populated conservative areas.
You are certainly demonstrating your desire to help your fellow man by anonymously being a dick to actual fellow men. Bravo, sir, bravo.
If you haven't checked out Mirth in it's v3 format, it's not terrible. I find that alot of the hold-up with HL7 setup in regards to logic involves VPN setup and cloning/maintaining different channels that basically do identical things. We've built some tooling on top of Mirth to do this where I work and I think it's a better approach than black box integration solutions.

That being said, I'll definitely be checking this out.
Confused: you can 'return' the movie AND keep a copy, which you distribute widely thus ruining any chance of the creator profiting by their work.

Can't do that with the physical book. Not for free anyway.
The tax payer.
I would argue that the "need for publishers and authors to make money" is where the issue lies, not in the means of knowledge transfer (libraries vs. file sharing).

Just like how governments subsidize libraries, so too should they subsidize file sharing.
The fact that file sharing involves copying, not lending existing copies, is significant. If pirates make that analogy then they're being ridiculous. I'm not sure I've seen it made myself.
> Wake me up when someone figures out how to make apps that require seamless multi-user collaboration, like say distributed clones of HN, Facebook or Github.

There are people working on this, so stay awake.
The #1 purpose of file sharing is not knowledge sharing, it's entertainment sharing.
Stable links were also part of the earliest ideas for the web, they just failed early. The URL was only intended as the 'locator', the URN was the stable link, and some way had to be found for URN's to be mapped to URL.
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"Of course you can champion public food banks, and simultaneously oppose stealing food. Don't be ridiculous!

All it takes is either illogical, inconsistent thinking, or logically invalid thinking. There's no barrier to either of these, in theory or practice."

Fixed it for you. ;-)
Don't forget Tesla had zero known love interests and never married (possibly gay).
Requirements are ambiguous, don't include all the detail etc.

Code is the most rigorous documentation there is.
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Efficiency isn't everything, by the way.

Effectiveness is another important metric. Can filesharing give me access to all those millions of books that have never been digitized?

No? So I guess libraries can do something that filesharing can't.

I won't go so far to claim that filesharing could never give me a perfect replica of Bembo's "De Aetna". But it doesn't today.

See? I can defend libraries on another criterion than efficiency.
Ignoring DMCA requests opens you up to being sued for copyright infringement though—that's the entire purpose, is to provide a copyright "safe harbor" for places that host user generated content, provided they meet certain restrictions.
While I am not colour blind, I sympathise with those that are. All programming languages should have a library along the lines of Colors.jl [1] that allows you to simulate and, more importantly, provides functionality to give you a good set of colours and colour scales to use for your graphics.

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> IR is ISA agnostic

It's absolutely ISA specific and this target independence pipe dream keeps being repeated on HN. Just search the LLVM documentation for "target specific."
jgramhamc is referencing a William Gibson line from a cyberpunk book. The line is dated because kids think an untuned TV channel is blue. Old people[1] like us recognise the metaphor[2] for what it is. Other perhaps anacronistic bits in the book include people in cabs getting faxes sent to the cab which are printed on cheap paper.

(Although I prefer to think that this is a description of an alternate future, not our own future extrapolated, which neatly does away with worries about fax paper).

This comment is a long way of saying ThatsTheJoke.png

[1] sorry jgrahamc!

[2] or analogy.
There's a big difference between "dare to kill an American" and "dare to have an American killed"... especially when the people that want you dead are potentially doing so to hide their corruption which would be an even bigger controversy if exposed.