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What's the difference between giving you $X that other people don't get, and asking you to pay $X less in taxes that other people have to pay?
In the specific case of France, there are at least two reasons:

- there is a stringent legal regime ("media chronology") that sets compulsory delays for publishing a movie on alternative mediums after it has got into theatres : publishers have to wait 4 months to get DVDs out, free TV channels won't be able to screen the movie before 30 months, and VOD subscription services have to wait 36 months (!)

- Moreover, exclusivity on the national territory is a common practice for TV series, and a lot of the popular ones have been sold to major TV channels. Ironically, Netflix had already signed such a contract with Canal+, a French channel, for its signature series House of Cards, which is thus not available on the French version of Netflix !
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Hi, if you were paying through our international payment processor, you should give it another try, as we have a payment processor in the US now.

And if you were paying through our US processor, I'd love to have the support ticket number to look into it, as we're really working to eliminate such payment issues.
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> And even when said premise is correct for a device, there are cases where the firmware inherently requires copyrighted material (For instance, requiring a (copyrighted) poem in a handshake).

No way! Copyright law does not prevent someone from creating a new work that is designed to be compatible with an old work. Likely outcomes are that the poem would not qualify for copyright protection for that usage (it's not a poem as much as a sequence of arbitrary bytes to be read only by a computer), or that a fair use finding would be made, perhaps on the grounds that the copy does not affect the market for the original work - i.e. nobody was paying for the poem. Most likely a judge would just throw out the entire case at the start as a waste of the court's time.
Napster, Gnutella and friends forced the music industry to adapt their business models to include digital distribution -- and we've learned that consumers are still willing to pay for services that are reasonably priced, DRM-free, and easy to use even with piracy as an alternative.

Hopefully Popcorn Time will do the same for movies. Netflix and friends have made great strides -- but they are still hobbled by DRM and geographical restrictions, as the article points out.
So how was the experience?
I'm not sure what your point is. Let's say the above were true, a non profit organization uses its tax subsidies to let students attend for free - how is that not a good thing? And how is that not something that should be encouraged?
Coincidentally, I was investigating a slightly more general version of that question last week, and I found this paper getting a 3× speedup, and more on parallel machines: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/208237/asplos302-mytkowic...

The summary is that once you've computed the KMP state transition function, you compute its prefix sum under composition and then ask at which textual indices it assumes a final state. This abstract description of the KMP algorithm is sufficiently general to cover realizations with different time and space complexity, including not just the purely serial uniprocessor O(N)-time constant-space realization, but also potentially the 3× efficient SIMD realization described in the paper, efficient O(log N)-time parallel realizations and GPGPU realizations; and it is sufficiently specific to automatically derive an efficient realization.

An even more interesting question, to me, is what kind of formalism would make it easy to rigorously (and perhaps even automatically) derive KMP and/or BM from the abstract definition of the string search problem and an objective of reducing computation time.
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CAs are insecure. Nobody is arguing otherwise.

The problem is that you can't mitigate insecure CAs by adding a new set of irrevocable government-controlled CAs.

That's the point 'idlewords is making. Right now, the DNS does not function as a sort of distributed CA. But that's exactly what DNSSEC asks it to do.
Bingo. Where i'm from, it was legal to copy cassettes and pass them on to friends and family. This in part because the politicians realized that trying to enforce a strict ban meant either banning players outright, or place a cop in every home across the nation.

Though i guess it helped that they had the big scary communist block to be compared to if they had tried.

This because they also ended up allowing imported CB radios to be operated, even though the band was originally allocated for a different use.
and also don't compute the inverse if you don't have to!
http://ipinfo.io/ip (or http://ipinfo.io if you want geolocation info too).
Bill Gates is also seen as a "good guy" because he's spent the last decade of his life eradicating Polio in developing nations.

Steve btw has "retarded" the ebook industry, built up "closed gardens" across the application universe, and has prevented the iOS from ever receiving 3rd party hardware upgrades by design.

Bill Gates may have been ruthless ruling the 90s with Word and Windows... but even he was significantly more open than Apple ever was with their iPhone.
The site is international and there are many countries where what they are doing is not illegal.
Harvard waives fees altogether for families making less than $65,000. More than 60% of US households have income less than that+, yet only 20% of Harvard's undergraduate class pays no fees. From this we reasonably say that Harvard is mostly a school for rich kids, despite its generosity to those non-rich kids it lets in. In this way it is similar to elite private high schools in NYC or boarding schools in New England (both of which still send many students).

+This in not quite the correct referent class, as you'd want households with an 18 year old rather than all households. Still I'd be suprised if it was too far off.
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Its called PR.
> Suppose you were to start "a hedge fund with a university attached to it", in order to use the university's non-profit status to minimize paying taxes.

Who is "you"? Certainly not someone who expected to ever extract cash from their hedge fund in order to make it part of their income for that year.

Now you might say the school is a lavish club for students and faculty, but who benefits from that? Not the donors. If they're wealthy, they've got far more efficient spending options to enjoy marble floors and leather sofas.
Good point! We will shrink them
Ask HN: What's the use of part of speech tagging
I'm super inexperienced with natural language processing, but a very common feature of NLP libraries seems to be part of speech (POS) tagging. In documentation, POS tagging is often referred to as part of an NLP pipeline. Which algorithms or techniques would take the output of a POS tagger as their input?
AFAIK it's a translation of the French contract. But we've seen this comment enough times that our legal team is now reviewing it.
> Suppose you were to start "a hedge fund with a university attached to it", in order to use the university's non-profit status to minimize paying taxes. What would that look like?

As long as all the funds went towards the chartered goals of the non-profit, it would look like a really good idea for sustainable funding.

I don't see any reasonable basis on which the article's comparison makes sense. They compared the tax not paid by a registered non-profit with tax funds taken from taxpayers and spent on public universities, such that if someone doesn't pay . Apples and oranges. To look at it another way, the private university provides what most people consider a "better" education without receiving any public funds; clearly we need more such institutions if possible.

Apart from that, based on past evidence, collecting such taxes would not replace taxes collected from others to support a tax decrease; rather, it would just increase the total size of the budget.

Looking at tax you wish you could collect but have no legal right to and salivating over it makes as much sense as looking at the contents of someone else's bank account and wishing it was yours.
Would you buy a car from a dealer that required you to sign a contract stating they could take your car back if you carry a passenger who says something racist? Would you do so even if they promise they don't enforce that clause, when there's ten other dealers in your town that don't make you sign anything like that?
No kidding. "And since bestowing tax exemptions is the same as spending cash from the government’s perspective". I physically shuddered as I read that.

The authors entire argument falls apart right there.
They actually lost access to a lot of movies, with the expiration of their Epix deal.[0] Between that and Starz, I don't know how anyone can actually rely on Netflix for movies anymore. They've bet the company on their original programming and the ability to binge-watch back catalog shows.

[0] http://variety.com/2015/digital/news/netflix-epix-deal-expir...
I recognize this. But Hacker News is a technology forum. I'd hope people would recognize the relevance of Dennis Ritchie to our field around here.

Alas, popularity is a weird thing.
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Brings back memories of using CC generators to call 1-900 numbers for free or pay for random services online. I still dont know how I never got in trouble.

We also used keygens so we could play online games online for free with a burned disc (or to play over LAN).
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> its keyboard workflow is poor.

Try the Nostalgy add-on.
I guess Raspberry Pi would be actually more expensive than this. Also, I think not having to set up this tech stack myself alone is worth more than 30 Euro...
"I am convinced that the Popcorn Time-killer is going to be a Netflix without borders. They should remove national restrictions for films,..."

Haha you can tell when opinions are offered about services that the speaker doesn't use.

Netflix is laggy on movies (in terms of how long before Netflix gets access after initial release) and extremely hit or miss on selection. They're canning Stars and picking up Disney, which still gives them a very low total % of movies, and still prevents them from accessing the movies early.

Popcorn Time lets you watch rips and cams long before a legal Netflix has access.

People aren't using Popcorn Time to watch content available on US Netflix, they're using it to watch content that is locked behind contract and available in theatres or still in various exclusivity periods.

The same thing they use Bittorrent for. Go check the top downloads right now on a major tracker: None of the popular movies are available on ANY Netflix.

It's frankly delusional to think that Netflix's laggy, spotty access to last years movies will "kill" a service that illegally grants you access to movies earlier than Netflix will ever get.
Awesome work, but what about a source repository?
>that sets compulsory delays for publishing a movie on alternative mediums after it has got into theatres

Is there supposed to be some kind of benefit somewhere here?

What was the pitch for such a bill? I can't think of any reasoning that benefits the consumers of france.
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Thanks for this! I am currently taking linear algebra with Serge Lang's book and I feel that this is a good addition to my studies. When do you expect to have the other chapters done?
I think most of them got the idea from France.

As best i recall, Germany was a latecomer to the whole copyright thing. As such, they had wide and cheap access to all kinds of texts. Both informative and entertaining.

This in turn supposedly helped them bootstrap their industrial base.
Because it's an educational institution. That's the whole point! Harvard gets to have people with no money get degrees from their school for free because of this. It's a wonderful thing for society that they have such a big endowment.

Why anyone would get so money hungry as to attack them is beyond me.
Expensive laywers hire expensive private investigators who know how to deanonymize people on the internet quite well.

Just because Warner Bros is old and stodgy doesn't mean that they don't have access to people with advanced technical skill. In England there have even been P.I. shops used by the wealthy that were shut down for hacking and that was 5+ years ago.
I meant that it must be "a vital societal good" since people risk the penalties for it.

The civil and criminal fines are pretty damn ridiculous. If I were in charge, I'd treat it like a parking ticket. Your IP gets caught, you get a 75 dollar fine unless you can show it wasn't you. That's how we treat parking tickets.

I just think it's silly for pirates to argue that the media content is worthless junk. Since they spend so much time consuming it for free. That goes double now that netflix has enough content for a lifetime for 8 bucks a month.
Am I using the hedge fund profits to buy a yacht, or run a university? If the latter, then good!
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Don't know. Never asked him. It is a UK car though. Steering wheel on the right.
If it's debatable when it comes to movies, it's debatable when it comes to software, and we should all be making a lot less money.
> As if the natural state of things is for the government to tax everything and whatever it doesn't is being subsidized.

Why shouldn't everyone pay their share? If I'm paying my share and you aren't paying yours, I'm subsidizing your government services.
I'm actually thinking of buying a cheap hackable ereader with USB OTG support and putting Debian on it, precisely for this purpose.

(It looks like the Nook is probably my best bet, but it unfortunately doesn't have a powered USB port so I'd need to find an external power supply of some description for the keyboard. Any other suggestions gratefully appreciated.)
Shucks. If you would email me at naftali@continuoapp.com, I'd be very grateful.
I think we're talking about different things. I too do my best to weed out potentially troublesome clients. But when a larger group of people have a "body of work" they're responsible for, that's the sort of hierarchy I would expect.

In the long run, though, I think (in an open market system) always turning down hard cases (for example referrals from peers, or people who specifically seek you out for your expertise) can negatively affect your reputation. In the end I might call it a wash because the person who is truly trying to do the least amount of work for the most personal benefit wouldn't try to stand out by finishing their work substantially faster than their peers or charging substantially less. So you probably lose a lot of the marketing benefit of out performing your peers since your ideal scenario will be to remain hidden in the pack. And by doing, it seems reasonable to assume people won't be trying to knock down your door to get you to do work for them like someone who is accepting the more challenging work and doing so successfully.
Mourning is not a lifetime achievement award.

Frankly, when I hear people comparing Ritchie to Jobs, the (unkind) thought that pops into my head is: "This person feels nothing about either death, but feels strongly that people should know how much smarter they are than everyone else". Increasingly elaborate justifications, for instance about how important Ritchie is to the work people on HN do, don't help that.
In the same way that people violate posted speed limits, at least. The chance of an average person getting nailed for streaming/torrenting something they shouldn't be is probably even less (and then even less than that if they stay away from new releases).
You can opt out politely; I do it all the time. Recently, it's been interesting, since I dislocated my shoulder and can't yet lift my arm as high as they want me to. But it still seems to work out.
It's just you, as you know what C and Unix are. Most of the people holding their "smartphones" (of which not a single one is significantly different from iPhone, compared to the state before 2007) from this estimate:

http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/02/6-1b-smartphone-users-globa...

("6.1B Smartphone Users Globally By 2020")

will never even hear either of C or of Unix.
One difference is that there aren't just two sets in the tax-paying universe.

Another is that this isn't zero sum.
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How is it an illegal site if it doesn't host copyrighted content? In my jurisdiction that's completely legal.
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Interesting question. I for example use netflix mainly to view series that have not been available in my country before (or only packed with lots of useless stuff in some expensive cable subscription) or for their own content (House of Cards, Orange is the new black etc).

I vaguely recall having heard that movies are actually not the main interest of their viewers but that might have been some PR ;)
Most prisons don’t look like it’s shown in movies, but more like http://static.businessinsider.com/image/53862b38ecad041f184e...

It’s also not uncommon for many criminals to be allowed to leave the prison and walk around in the surrounding area to go to stores, etc, unless they are a direct threat.

So, having this equip in the cell is not unusual.
I'm in a similar situation, not getting much math in college while pursuing an unrelated degree and only teaching myself programming later. I've subsequently addressed my math deficit through extension courses at local universities, Coursera and Udacity MOOCs, Khan Academy, etc.

There two areas where I've felt the need for advanced math most keenly during my software development career are: 1) Similarity scoring in information retrieval and recommendation engines. 2) DSP.
> Harvard gets to have people with no money get degrees from their school for free because of this.

As far as I know, enrollment at Harvard and most other elite institutions skews heavily toward wealthy people.
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Agree on higher level libraries being necessary - but Nacl or libsodium? Those are some enormous dependencies you're talking about here.

I'd say we need more effort on small, focus built libraries for tasks such as these. You can talk about how people need to add in Nacl into their project, but actually doing that is simply not possible for many developers.

eg, more libraries like this one: https://github.com/tozny/java-aes-crypto
Because it's not clearly illegal...

For instance, here's a google search [0] that gives you access to the same pirated material that Popcorn Time does (but with a worse UI)

Does this mean google is an illegal site? Is HN an illegal site? It can get pretty complex.

[0]: https://www.google.com/search?q=yify+jurassic+world+filetype...
When public education needs more money, taxing private education to support them doesn't help education in the society as a whole.

High education should not be taxed, period. It's investment towards more tax income in 3-4 years. If you need to tax something to support some providers of education, it's not other providers of eduction.
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How does that answer my question? If you want to complain about attacks then you can do it at the top level.
20% of Harvard's undergraduate class pays no fees. That's great! >300 people a year get to attend Harvard and pay no fees. Why complain about this?
Do you have any specific resources that you can recommend for learning to break crypto?
Artificial Scarcity is one strategy to drive prices. There's the real effect of scarcity, as from a region lock, and the psychological effect of having to decide quickly before an item is sold out. Buy now, only three left!!! Price Differentiation is also a thing: The movie is so expensive that netflix couldn't afford it for more than a few months, it's that good.

btw: "Popcorn Time-killer" is questionable use of punctuation.
I don't understand, how are either of those differences between the two scenarios?
I have also built something similar, I knew of the existence of cipherhub, but my goal was to focus on the ease of use, with the browser (https://mailbeam.io and https://github.com/bobbywilson0/gh-message). I do admit that my solution is not as easy as it should be yet.

You should consider with RSA keys have a limited size message that can be encrypted (e.g. for 2048 bit keys you are limited to 256 bytes in your message). My solution was to use the SSH key to encrypt the secret I used to encrypt the message with.
I think the writer is trying to talk about how this show portraits, in his mind, a distance future yet it is a show about now. One could easily see this show, if created just 10 years ago, a futurist crime show. The author is trying to describe how in 10 years so much has change and how digital everything is and how much computers has taken over our lives
Geese, I was joking about the scraper.
This is exactly the kind of project we need these times. I hope this works out OK for these guys (I am backer #7). I hope it works out for us backers. Also I hope someone will later make a RaspberryPi image with almost the same functionality, ready to download and use (but, alas, you have to provide your own mail domain). Still, this is the right thinking. Email is the one protocol we easily can have at home, reasonably secure, with all the benefits and almost no negatives. My peers do not even need to know where the mails go!
They make a point of saying it's only available in Popcorn Time though.
Actually, flying is better than almost all cars sold in the US (except for the VW Up!, which comes close).

An Airbus A380 uses the equivalent energy of 3l gasoline per passenger per 100km. This is a mileage of 80mpg.

Only rail is more efficient.
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> I guess what you're saying is that computers are so bad, they still can't get over that "pretty low bar"?

Yes, that is exactly what I'm saying. So you can skip over the parts where you talk about how other people, not me, praise the abilities of current autonomous vehicles, because I'm not doing that.
Here is a map of where it is illegal. (the blue) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention#/media/File:B...
We should compare to how much good the same money would do if it was taxed instead of left to Harvard? E.g. the German state pays $32,000 per student and degree, so foresaking $400,000 of taxes in order to educate one student seems like a bad deal.
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