skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's demand for streaming movies and up-to-date releases with people willing to pay, why not meet it?

These services already exist, though (not movie-theatre-release up to date, but neither is Popcorn Time). Yet people still want to watch these movies for free.

Let's not kid ourselves - yes, the MPAA could help to create a better system than currently exists for streaming movies. No, users of Popcorn Time won't suddenly start paying for movies while the free Popcorn Time service still exists.
Album sales do nothing (or rather, little) to chart how disappointing an album is.

An album can be disappointing or exciting. A sale is a sale, and says nothing of that.
Ask HN: What apps would help individuals in high need or catastrophic events?
Thinking in technology and events like the Nepal's Earthquake, California fires, flooding and other catastrophic events. What apps do we have to help on that?

All of them are aimed to optimize help arranged by organizations or governments?

Wouldn't make sense that we use technology to optimize individual-to-individual help?

Maybe this would be important beyond catastrophes and with small easy actions help improve life of people or families in really bad situations who's life would radically improve if one guy in one side of the world decides buy for them a gravitylight (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX32yQgybaw) or a water filter (http://inhabitat.com/6-water-purifying-devices-for-clean-drinking-water-in-the-developing-world/), mentoring or a modest P2P lending.

What social network or apps do we have to connect and optimize individual-to-individual help?
It reduces the odds of theft by making it harder to open the case (only the owner unlocks it, no backdoor key), formalizes its inspection (only opened when owner present), and raises the stakes of theft (stealing a camera is one thing, stealing a gun garners much harsher punishment and gets more dedicated authorities involved).

Yes, anything can be stolen (whole luggage even). Put in a real case, with a serious lock, which legally cannot be opened without you, and you've significantly improved the odds of seeing that camera (and "bodyguard" gun) again.

Just because improving the odds didn't reach 0.0 doesn't mean it's 1.0.
When I first saw the post about the two combining, never did I imagine it happening this fast. Congrats!
RunC – a lightweight universal runtime container
Google Maps APIs Now Available with Pay-As-You-Go Pricing
Fair enough about var, it is annoying in ways that are orthogonal to rebindability (is that a word?)

Also, here’s my question: If I can write:

const PI = 3.14159265;

Why can’t I write:

const function diameter (r) { return 2 * PI * r; }

???
It's surprising to read an article that touches on the old Boston hardcore scene without any mention of FSU. For anyone interested in more stories of Boston hardcore and crime, take a glance at http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/punk-rock-fight-clu...
Exciting to see node moving so quickly
So excited!
Cutting the Cord
The io.js fork and subsequent merge back into Node.js, including the birth of the Node Foundation, has been one of the best examples of the power of open source I have ever seen in action.

The situation went from bad, to worse, to the best possible outcome, and that's remarkable to say the least.

Congratulations to everyone involved and thank you for the hard work.
I found this video of the burial of the soviet sailors incredibly respectful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFWMo7aHDRo&noredirect=1
Soylent: To Increase Productivity, I Went 30 Days Without Food
This is great news. I'm especially excited about the new ECMA6 features (arrows, etc.)
It's not strange - how we live by default, that's strange. There's whole another original, normal way of dealing with life and situations.

To a logical person the easiest take away is that control over your senses / thoughts / perception frees up a lot of your capabilities with which you can do more - whatever that is, money making, art, nothing. You do it while truly enjoying it. It's great if you can pull it off!
Markets with lots of market-makers have more liquidity! Film at 11!
Never heard of the site until this article but this is the problem we've seen all too much. Most of the time, there's no paid service offering what we want. If there is, the price is unreasonable or the service is ridiculously locked down. This is the same thing that happened with music in the 90s etc. Finally, something like Spotify came around and made it so that music was actually AVAILABLE for us to explore not "you have to purchase this if you even want to know what the artist sounds like."

If you want to watch football games online and you find that it's going to either cost you $20/game for only your home team's games and they cut out the announcers or something and double up on the commercials to pay for the network AND to pay for the game(hypothetical) and then you find that you can watch it on a third party streaming site for free and have your favorite announcer doing commentary, you're bound to not want to pay the ridiculous amount for it and move to using some less-than-wholesome service.

There's no real solution to any of this aside from a paradigm shift. Yes, money is the motivation for creating a lot of this stuff. However, people are just going to continue to find ways around terrible ridiculous lock downs.
That says: “actively drive the reshaping of industry, as it combines aspects of the physical, virtual, IT and cybersystem worlds to help create a new working environment of integrated productivity between worker and machine. It represents a highly dynamic point of achievement, where every company, whether large OEM, major tier supplier or small job shop, can benefit from the technologies and the communication platforms emerging in the market today, some at the speed of light.”

Is there a non-bullshit version?
That doesn't explain what the difference actually is, merely a perceived consequence of mixing it up.
Can't wait to start using ECMA6 natively
They could at least try. Spotify is not making as much money as they could in a market full of perfect angels who never pirate, but they still get by.
AntiSpy for Windows 10
This is pretty cool. I have been contacted by recruiters from companies I said I liked on the website.
Slackalytics – Slack Analysis Bot with Google Analytics Integration
Node on Docker Hub needs a new tag.

https://hub.docker.com/_/node/
I'm always disappointed by an oral history that I can't listen to.
It was largely designed by Bret Victor while he was an undergraduate. It had its own operating system! You can find the documentation here: https://web.archive.org/web/20080229205618/http://www.cs.cal...

The vending machine would occasionally be replaced so students had to create new hacks from scratch, but none of them were nearly as impressive as that one. During my undergrad, its only feature was a "random soda" button. More recently, it had a space cut out of the front panel which housed a flatscreen monitor so you could surf the web on it while eating your lunch, but nothing was hooked up to the vending machine's control system.

I guess we were more inventive before we had the modern internet.
Finding moving helpers
It may be unauthorized per Comodo's TOS.
Never Use the Confirm Dialog
Introduction to Contributing to Apache OpenOffice
What happened with the version numbers? I could have sworn Node was on v0.10 just a couple of months back?
Hoping all the main distros include this release as soon as possible in their main repos.
Excited to see this happen so soon. I was expecting it to take a bit longer.

I see it's still shipping npm v2. Any news on when npm v3 will be "production-ready" and the default version?
Finally a stable release. Thank You Node Foundation.
This is a great dashboard tool. Thanks for making it. I think I may use it in the future.

Since you asked for ideas... I have one. It would be great if there was section that allowed the user to customize their dashboard view with a drag and drop page editor. Maybe they could select a template for the layout of the widgets on their homepage. Then they could move around the widgets to different sections in the template. They could drag other ones on to the template if they wanted a different report to show on their dashboard. Kinda like what the wordpress page builder does. http://antonibotev.com/themes/roki/wp-content/uploads/2013/0...
Would you believe me if I told you I typed that on mobile and that I actually have to blame auto-correct :/
Apple refused to wiretap an iMessage account for the Justice Department
I was just about to say that I wish the home page had this. Now that I look back again I see a 'see the archive' link, but considering I was skimming the page in the first place the design didn't pop.

I'd suggest having a section that is the latest 3 things, or something to that effect that takes as much space on the page as all the other bits so I figure out better if I want this or not.
Correct, we didn't use /etc/defaults/celeryd, or use a standard init/systemd/upstart/etc-based way of starting celeryd. Instead we used daemontools to add and remove celeryd processes with their own configuration. It took a bit of work, but ultimately let us do code updates with zero downtime.
All you need to know about Hadoop [Infographic]
This is crazy fast shipment..almost scary that you have to start keeping up with all the changes..

For anyone who wants to upgrade either from node 0.12 or iojs 3.30..all you have to do is re-install it with the GUI installer and you're good to go..for your personal computer at least!
Google Contributor: See Fewer Ads on Millions of Sites
Periscope Is Secretly Building an Apple TV App
> To buy you what?

To get a powerful core language on top of which I can build anything in just a couple of hundreds of lines (e.g., a complete JavaScript - in order to get the rest of the libraries for free). Or a JVM. Or .NET CLR. Or whatever else.

> And 5 kloc in "several days"? I doubt it.

I did this as an experiment once. From bare machine code on a new architecture, via a very basic Forth, to Lisp and then C and everything else. Did not take much time to do.

> Link or it didn't happen.

Did not publish it yet for a variety of reasons, but may include this JavaScript compiler in my next code drop soon, stay tuned (see my github).

> Besides, there's no point in using Forth if you're gonna end up running your stuff in a "compliant JavaScript implementation"

The question was that having only Forth would not leave me crippled - I'll get all the power I want in just few days. And this kind of JavaScript implementation is more than just JavaScript. It allows me to use anything coded in JavaScript seamlessly from any other language built on top of the same meta-language.
2007 actually. Anyway, ask me anything!

The project comes in two parts. The first part is linked above. The second part is written in FORTH -- or rather, a subset of FORTH initially that builds up and adds features as it goes along: https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth/blob/master/jonesfort... Try scrolling down the file, and notice how the comment syntax changes from \ (backslash) to (...) (parentheses), then notice that parenthesis-comments are implemented just before the style change. There's a lot more stuff like that, although that's the most noticeable thing for beginners.
Mac User Groups Fade in Number and Influence, but Devotees Press On
”The last Automat closed in New York City in 1991”

I had no idea they lasted that long. Thank you for sharing this article, 'smacktoward. I’m too tired at the moment so I’ll save it for later reading. I’ve been fascinated by Automat ever since I saw Edward Hopper’s painting by the same name[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat_%28painting%29
one of the best games ever made.
I wonder how fast AWS will adopt it on Lambda?
Hacker news post not showing up, help
I posted something a few moments ago and it doesnt show up in the "newest" feed for anyone else. I can see it when i log in but it has a star next to it and its greyed out. This means no one can see it :(. SO now i face the kanundrum of whether its bacuse im a very new account of whether theres something wrong or whether its just because im not popular :/

Reponsse appreciated (if this post even shows up)
Nice to see the OCP coming through!
I would love to read an account of the games that administrators play, or of how businesses use universities to "launder money", if you know any. We've all seen numerical analyses that suggest that administrator compensation is way out of whack, but I've yet to read a good ground-level account of it.
Same with Homebrew, por favor.
So I tried to sign up, got the capcha, and then was redirected back to the main page. Don't know if I was signed up or not (or what the error was otherwise), but so far nothing in my email.

Update: I did receive the email, but some kind of confirm on the web would be helpful.
The same episode happened with GCC and EGCS in the 90s. It's the power of free software.
Ask HN: Which email service to use for Custom Domain?
Which one do you recommend over Zoho, Fastmail, Rackspace as hosted email service for my custom domain? I'm thinking of trying out zoho, any suggestions?
That sounds good, we will test the HTML5 Drag & Drop feature to see how far we can go with it.
I wonder how much of it was done as a hedge against the time when this would eventually come out.

"Sure, we tried to steal your sunken sub. But look, we played nice."
It's also worth remembering that Apple's iPhone revenue is bigger than the total revenue of companies like HP, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Google and Intel combined: http://uk.businessinsider.com/apple-iphone-revenue-vs-compet...
As somebody who uses Node only at the periphery of my role (for things like the Zombie browser, and SASS parsing) the massive instability has put me off from relying on it for anything core.

Documentation is quickly out of date, libraries seem to have incompatibilities which only become obvious when they don't work, there's no 'recommended' approach for even basic tasks.

I won't pretend I'm speaking for everyone, as clearly there are lots of people doing great things with Node. However, it doesn't seem to be a language like Ruby or Python where I would feel comfortable using it for a small but important project.

I'm always grateful to everyone who works on open source projects, but I wouldn't hold Node up as a great example of the open source community.
Awesome service! We use it a lot in conjunction with other tools. Didn't know it's actually 4 years old already [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2649326
Show HN: Add Gesture Control to Any Android App
OT, but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqvXDTH-o_o
They might have hacked other websites and maybe didn't find any vulnerabilities for linkedin.
Since I don't own a boat, I wouldn't mind if they bought a bunch of yachts.

Since I live in Cambridge, I care very much how much gets fenced into official Harvard only property.
npm@3 "will be leaving beta very soon!" according to the release notes for 3.3.2.
I know Diablo 2 was much bigger improvement over Diablo 1, but I feel like what really made it was Battle-net. Back then most online RPG games required you to install shit like Gamespy to play online, at least that's the feeling I got.

But I never played until Lord of Destruction exp though, maybe some stuff came after.
Consider a phone app which reads product barcodes and orders more of the same thing. You shop by pointing your phone at the empty container and telling it how many. Smarter developers might also have it recognize common fruits and vegetables. That might be useful.

I'm surprised Amazon doesn't already have such a device. They have a voice input thing and a push to buy thing. A kitchen appliance which looks and works like a price gun is a logical next step.
This stuff is all very interesting but, unless you're a researcher, has no immediate practical impact. What you would almost definitely accomplish by switching from (quantum cryptanalysis vulnerable) Curve25519 to a (supposed quantum safe) lattice or code-based algorithm is shipping something terribly insecure. It took a long time after the deployment of RSA, and an even longer time after ECC, to figure out the fiddly details of implementing it safely.
France has many laws intended to protect their culture and the creators of French culture. For example, France is a supporter of and has implemented film quotas so that the majority of films shown in theaters/on tv must be from France[0]:

"Television Without Frontiers" directive and quotas implemented by
the French Government limit the number of American films shown in
French theaters and on French Television. The EU Broadcast
Directive was passed inOctober 1989 in an effort to protect and
promote the Europeancultural identity. The directiverequires that
EU member-states reserve a majority (51 percent) of entertainment
broadcast transmission time for programs of European origin.
France lobbied hardest to pass the EU directive and has since
implemented the most stringent quotas within its national system.

[0] - http://www1.american.edu/ted/frenchtv.htm
Really cool idea! These guys are super dedicated. Can't wait to see where this will go :)
We didn't play with 4.0 alpha yet, we wait for the official release so we will not work twice to offer support for BS4. There will be 100% a BS4 version on all our items.
Guys, does V8 still deoptimize on ES6 features? For example, would using say const/lets in a function prevent V8 from optimizing it as a whole? That was the case some time ago when these features were still under a flag.
Zoho has been good to me, and we still fit in the free tier. Imap setup was a bit wonky but once going I have had zero issues.
Typical way to tackle sub-domains would be to issue a wildcard certificate.
I don't agree with this style.

`var` is broken. Don't try to find a use-case for it. Just don't use it.

It would be nicer to have real, deep immutability, but `const` isn't it. Therefore, use it for what it actually is, not what you wish it was. If you don't intend to reassign a reference, then mark the reference constant. That's it.

It may be surprising, but it's quite easy to write JS where almost every declaration is `const`. When every mundane variable is `const`, then the more complex initializations/data flows/accumulators really requiring `let` stand out, which is very useful for reviewing code ("let" = "warning: there may be an `else` or missing `switch` case that will leave that undefined").

Because `const` requires to be initialized at the time of definition, you know the variable is valid for its entire lifetime. When you find its value was wrong, there's only one place where the value could have come from (you don't need to comb the function to look for reassignments).
This is an incredibly helpful resource!!
I'm the author of a software product. The main reason why people buy the license and renew it is the free upgrades for one year. It means I've adapted my business model to acknowledge the fact that I'm not a monster with eyes and hands everywhere in the world, as opposed to MPAA.

And it's time the music/movie industry understands that they need to upgrade their business models to the internet age. Maybe they should charge for fresh music, acknowledging that after 6 months everyone can have a copy of the music, pirated if necessary.
I'd argue that there was no true demand for 64 bit computing prior to 2001-2002, if you look at say the Sun Ultra series of workstations, most couldn't go beyond 4 gb of ram per processor, many much less, the same appears to be the case for DEC. The exception largely was SGI.

Even then, the markets Microsoft was selling NT into, wouldn't have benefitted much from the extra memory (or the greater floating point performance) allowed by 64-Bit processors. Microsoft has never been in the scientific computing part of the business that SUN, DEC, and SGI were playing in.
Biotech – Software Engineer (Menlo Park, CA)
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BS degree in Computer Science or Engineering (or equivalent experience)
Knowledge of Java (or other related high level language), OO design principals and patterns, relational database design principals
Excellent verbal communication skills
Excellent problem solving skills
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Experience with Java middleware and application servers (JBoss/TomEE technology stack)

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Learn new concepts and experiment with new technologies
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EOE
Sure, you might argue that, but some people don't want to take the risk.

It could also be argued that bad Tom Cruise thrillers and fifth-installment summer blockbuster sequels are necessary for the industry to have enough money, experience, talent and infrastructure to be able to produce the occasional good movie.
Servers don't use a GUI installer :P
Every time an article like this makes the front page I'm always pleasantly surprised at the number of (usually) old hardcore punks that come out of the woodwork and comment.

This article in particular has made me realize just how long it's been since I listened to Ten Yard Fight.
How much do people drive where you are located? At least in the US, even if the car/engine only lasted 200K miles (~321k km) that would still be about 13 years of average use.
Fun read. Not sure the author understands the fairly significant difference between punk and hardcore in the late 90s.
In the context of competition, tax exemptions are de facto subsidies. If my company has an ETR of 10% and yours would be the same if it weren't for the 50% reduction you got, you can underprice me by a few points and still have a higher profit all other things being equal.
No, this is part of the marine culture. It comes from the fact that the see is the strongest, keeping everybody humble in face of nature.
Beautiful! I can totally see myself using this. I'm sure it's in the works, but I'd pay to have more reminders and (maybe) reminders that are also customizable for a particular activity. So like, a dollar for an additional reminder (and so on).
Instability is the very thing this merge and the foundation seek to address. Where there was once an uncertain future, there is now a Board of Directors and a Technical Steering Committee bound by a Open Governance Model.

The future has never looked more stable for Node, just take a peek at the names of the companies sitting on the board: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/announcements/foundation-elects-b...