skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And that was the case when it was put in place.

When copyright first came to be, it was a negotiating leverage between the singular author and the owners of printing presses (very mechanical and labor intensive to operate, and therefore it was rarely done without sales in mind) for a share of the profits.

Without it, it was not uncommon for a printer to buy a text for pennies and then resell copies for pounds.

Then again, it also introduced the title page holding the name of author and printer. Thus the government had names to lean on if the content was not acceptable...
You're making the tenuous argument that time spent watching has any correlation with monetary value.

Netflix has its own problems, besides. Chief among those, the predatory licensing agreements causing entire swathes of content to vanish overnight, or the fact that those agreements are often local to the USA, causing people in other countries to get a vastly reduced/different catalog of content.

If the movie industry wanted to serve their customers instead of screw them, they'd get their lawyers together and release their own Popcorn Time. Literally all the movies, $XX/month, no heavy infrastructure required beyond P2P, no worries about your favorites disappearing randomly some day.

..But they will never do that, because to do so would cause them to admit those evil pirates had the right idea, and cause the false valuation of their content to evaporate.
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Caltech used to have a Coke machine that was Internet accessible in the late 90s, but I guess it didn't survive:

http://www.anderbergfamily.net/ant/machines/
Not necessarily. On the Kindle it takes about that long because it uses greyscale mode, which is slow, and also flashes the screen first to reduce ghosting, which doubles the time.

In 1-bit mono mode you can flip a pixel in ~100ms, which is plenty fast enough for text entry, although scrolling might not be good.

Early LCDs had terrible ghosting (anyone remember trying to play Doom on an early mono LCD and the image instantly turning into incomprehensible hash?), but I can't find any references for actual numbers for the pixel flip time. I'd be interested to know how they compare to eink. Does anyone know?
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Package management is a hard problem; I'd much rather see efforts to improve pip instead of fragmenting any efforts to improve what pip already does.
Quite often, these sorts of medical errors are reduced significantly by adopting risk and personnel management practices that were learned from a dark chapter of air traffic control. These practices don't mesh well with the current procedures performed compensation structure which is one of the reasons that developing new reimbursement models is en vogue. The status quo has enough inertia that it takes a major mishap to get each institution's bureaucracy to react.
What's challenging to me is my inability to develop intuition about LA simply because most of the time I have no idea what (the purpose) I am doing.

How does one build intuition about LA?
In my personal use situation, if I want to see a movie from this year I go see it in a movie theater. If I'm just looking for something to watch, I pull up Netflix. Typically I can find something interesting and decent. I don't need popcorn time, because it isn't worth the effort/risk/moral grey area when I have legal paid options. As long as there are no commercials in my Netflix, I'm happy.
The quote from Abad is speaking about a product that doesn't exist yet. A Netflix-like experience without massive holes in content. That may or may not be Netflix, if it ever comes to be realized.

You're attacking Netflix as-is, and saying that this couldn't occur. Yes, Netflix is laggy. Personally, I find the interface awful, browsing and navigating to be horrendous.

The question is: could a well-designed Netflix-LIKE product exist, with enough content available that a large number of people will use it instead of torrents? Would simultaneous theatre/online releases be enough?
What's the difference between me giving you $X and me ever so generously not taking $X from your bank account?

Also note the phrase "non-profit". This isn't a benefit we give to everyone; you have to have a registered non-profit that works towards some charitable cause (such as, in this case, giving people a free or low-cost education). If you want to argue that non-profit organizations should not exist, or argue for more constraints on the definition of public benefit, feel free; the article likely didn't because that would garner a lot less sympathy than disingenuously equating non-profits to picking the government's pocket at the expense of taxpayers.

Now, that said, I do have a fair bit of sympathy for the idea of limiting the granting of non-profit status, as well as many tax deductions, but only in conjunction with drastically reducing taxes for everyone. Non-profit status and tax deductions would matter a lot less if everyone paid an order of magnitude less in taxes across the board, and then we could eliminate the administrative overhead of tracking all of those things.
>yet only 20% of Harvard's undergraduate class pays no fees

Unfortunately I think this is mostly an issue of exposure. It is probably harder for most Andover Academy students to get into an Ivy than it would be for a similar student from a rural school, but most rural students don't know that. If the guidance counselors at high schools educated their students about their options many more of them would likely apply to top tier schools.
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- Matasano crypto challenges: http://cryptopals.com/

- https://www.crypto101.io/ both the presentation and the book.

I think those are good to begin with.
An oldie, but a goodie.
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What the manufacturer makes it easy to do and what you can get in legal trouble for are different things.

Do you want the state to use men with guns to force everything with a microcontroller in it to also come with an SDK? I'm basically a socialist, and even I think that's ridiculous overreach.
>People aren't using Popcorn Time to watch content available on US Netflix

I use Popcorn Time even when content is on Netflix. It's a better experience. Subtitles will reliably work (with nice formatting). I can adjust volume levels for low-volume movies. I can shift the centre of the content up - really useful when using a large projector. (Popcorn Time allows alternative players like MPC-HC.)

And, oddly, the streaming often works better. Netflix might start quicker, but it takes a while to pop into HD with no way to force it. I'd rather just take a 5 minute break and wait for things to fully buffer and know I'll have a solid experience. Plus I can skip around without restarting the buffering.

And since Netflix nerfed their site and recommendation system (you can't mark a film "not interested" without performing about 5 clicks on 3 screens - and they still recommend shit) -- discovery is just about as good.
Self driving cars still require a significant amount of surface area that could better be utilized for: housing, bike transit, pedestrian areas, parks.

And though coordination by autonomous vehicles could cut down on highway congestion, speeds within the city are unlikely to match what a subway system could offer. You don't want cars rushing through your neighborhood at 60 mph, no matter if it's a machine or a human behind the wheel.
I agree. There are whole classes of problems that are not at all obvious until one has spent time learning how to break bad crypto. Matasano's challenges[0] (which I think tptacek helped create) are a good start.

0. http://cryptopals.com/
No, they didn't use any serious anon tools. Just posted on a fake name once or twice the first days of the project, but then even included their credits on their twitter bios [example: https://twitter.com/abad ]
This assumes, however, that "intelligence" is something that scales reasonably well. Does it scale linearly with the number of transistors (or whatever replaces them)? Or as the log of it? Or worse than that?
Not the same thing here. The rich people already pay their share in tax that supports public education that they don't benefit from. The people who go to public education don't pay anything more.

Now the author is arguing that the rich people needs to pay more tax because they pay for their own education by going to a private school? That doesn't make sense to me.
When people point out that HFT's seem basically like a giant high speed frontrunning operation, as the OP did, the usual counter is that it's all fine and dandy, because they provide liquidity. Indeed right above your reply, is someone replying saying exactly that. Therefore the question of HFT's providing liquidity, or not, is very germane to the question, and if you're willing to be skeptical about what the Fed is saying regarding HFT's, then surely you would be similarly skeptical about what CNBC or Vanguard is saying, or would that go against your confirmation bias?
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Love what workfrom is doing. We're both in the same space in empowering remote workers, but Work Hard Anywhere focuses on mobile, for on-the-go folks. And more than that, we'd like to encourage our users to build their own coffice community by sharing what they're working on, so people who are in the same space can find ways to network and collaborate with each other.
It wouldn't be that hard to ID the skills the devs had to build the product, then scrape Github and LinkedIn for profiles that match those skills. Automate a visit to their page (and a few thousand other devs) and you've managed to spook the few that are actually working on it. I periodically get visits from attorneys to my LinkedIn page, but have done nothing to warrant those visits, at least to my knowledge.
What is a functional purpose why I would check that box?
I'm trying to figure out how to turn my MailStation (320x128 monochrome LCD + keyboard for dial-up email) into a typewriter, but I don't know the easiest way to get the text out of the machine.

https://www.google.com/search?q=earthlink+mailstation&tbm=is...
Yep. If one consider modern machine tools, I could in theory buy a chair, you could take proper measurements of it, and then feed those into a CNC or 3D printer to get an exact duplicate.

The only one at a potential loss here would be something like IKEA, because you didn't buy the chair from them.

And that is the kind of insane territory the likes of TPP and TTIP are heading into with their clauses whereby companies can sue nations for loss of potential profits (due to new legislations or whatsnot).
$100K in Google Cloud Credits
Earlier this year while attempted to grow my own startup I received $100K in google cloud credits (https://cloud.google.com).

Well my startup is now defunct and I was wondering what to do with these credits. It's more than I'll ever need. If anyone has some ideas they'd like to test. I'd love to hear it. This is basically unlimited access to cloud computing.
One issue here is using tax policy to incentivize investment in higher education by penalizing institutions for NOT spending huge endowment windfalls on higher ed.

You don’t tax Harvard the school like you tax a corporation. You tax Harvard the fund, if and only if it’s not existing primarily to support Harvard the school.

Sitting on money doesn’t help the economy much.
Profiles of the Future by Arthur C Clarke.
3º Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
I'm not sure "most people will use it with X" makes sense as way of thinking about RPi. It's for tinkering and learning and plugging into your projects. As a starting point, 7” Touchscreen seems like a pretty good way to go for versatility.

I like how this lets people just tape a RPi to a screen to make a tablet. Nice first step for young tinkerers. Step 2, lasers.
The drone of a coffee shop or rain can make you more prodictive? Give a try
Promotional quiz games where there are two buttons wired up to the RPi which is serving a web-based game, tweet-powered devices (RPi listens to the Twitter stream and activates a power switch when a certain hashtag is used) etc.
Furthermore they focus on per student numbers when a lot of the work done at private universities is graduate education and research work. Comparing based solely on the tax advantage / # of undergrads doesn't capture the difference in what the schools do.
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I'm sad that he died, eapecially so young and by delaying treatment that could have improved his prognosis. But one thing I'm beginning to appreciate is that the reality distortion field is sort of fading away. Wozniak has stepped up and talked more frankly about Jobs's real role inside Apple, especially during the early days. And increasingly though he is still regarded as a Leonardo among product managers, people are recognizing that Jobs was a control freak and that technical people do not want to live in his locked down, curated universe.

So we mourn, but we also feel free to acknowledge things after his death that we stifled while he was still alive for fear of our hero losing his glamour and being less of a guiding light.
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While a historian (like the author) might not get paid summer salary, this is not generalizable.
"Popcorn Time-killer"

Direct quote, not my writing. But I personally see the capitalized "T" signifying it's the product, not a generic time-killer.
It is, but it also makes them beholden to the content distributors. The last thing they want is to be delayed in offering the latest blockbuster or hotly debated drama.
Thanks! Please do write about the task for which you had to use the presented solution. Is the expected input on which the problem is evaluated really like "100K of golf holes and 100K of possible robot distances"? I don't know anything about these contests and I was not able to find the input on which the program is going to be measured (if I understand the speed is measured?)
HN previously had some discussion on an article that used IamgeMagick to do this correction on a video: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8713070
Show HN: NightOwl – Loginless Anonymous Social Network
NightOwl is a attempt to create a loginless social network of anonymous people sharing their thoughts. You don't need to login, yet you can post and follow other people. Your username and activity is preserved even after you close the website.

All NightOwl users are anonymous by default. You can however choose to opt out of anonymity by setting a preferred username and your Name in your profile.

Your feed will consist of randomly selected thoughts from users you follow as well as some thoughts from other random people.

NightOwl is heavily inspired from NightChamber and initially, started out as a NightChamber clone.
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The number 6 you mention is schools that are need blind and meet full need for both US and International Students.

Most well-known universities are need blind and meet full need for US students, and partially support international students. Which I think makes perfect sense.
At my (American, liberal arts, flyover country) university, linear algebra was my first real mathematics course. (The prior classes were calculus and a "proof" class, AKA intro to intro to number theory.) I'd been introduced to the determinant, Gauss--Jordan elimination, and so on, in high school, but all in a very mechanical way.

I think this transition between mechanically generating solutions to problems using pattern matching and some basic algorithms on the one hand, and the more mathematically mature approach of exploring problem spaces using pattern matching, some basic algorithms, and intuition can be difficult for many people.

It's not necessarily the material -- you can get used to almost anything, and even convince yourself it's easy or obvious with enough familiarity -- but the lack of intuition. When you're first learning linear algebra, its fundamental unity is not obvious, especially if the instructor does not take pains to point it out. (And even if the instructor does take pains to point it out -- well, it's hard to understand why the instructor is saying we could do this computation this way or that way.) So in the absence of existing intuition or any perception of unity, linear algebra becomes another target for pattern matching and basic algorithms.

As it happens, I've never, ever felt like I didn't "get" linear algebra. However, I almost always feel like I "get" it now and all my prior conceptions of it were a confused muddle.
The difference between your two scenarios is that in one scenario I have $X more than in the other scenario.

In my two scenarios, the money you have at the end is the same for both.

As for "If you want to argue," I'm not arguing anything. I'm asking what the difference is between a direct subsidy and a tax exemption, as the comment I replied to is complaining about the author conflating the two.
Usually for laws like that the pitch is that there's some indirect benefit to the populace, like a healthier film industry which produces more quality films, keeping theaters open which allow you to continue to buy that huge screen/sound theater experience or heightening France's importance to foreign movie studios. That kind of thing. As for whether the tradeoffs are worth it... well, I'm pesimistic.
Also https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~coke/, https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~coke/history_short.txt, and https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~coke/coke.history.txt. It's amusing that the third one is labeled "recent history" even though it's from 1990. When you're a coke machine from the 70s you view time somewhat differently I suppose.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10182168
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Are you fallaciously implying post hoc, ergo propter hoc?

I can think of a lot of possible causes for that public perception that are more plausible, and have nothing to do with the ability of applicants to perform well on a written examination.

I also have a sneaking suspicion that the raw statistical analysis of such a test from the U.S. in 1975 would show a lot of intrinsic racial, gender, political, and age biases.

Beyond that, many government jobs in the U.S. still have a qualifying exam. Even elementary school janitors have to take them. I have actually taken that particular test. (Long story.) The questions cover such subjects as how to properly employ a push broom, identifying cleaning chemicals, and what to do when a kid pukes in the hallway.

So what happens is that your exam score establishes a baseline ranking. Then your preference points are added for race, gender, ethnicity, disability, veteranosity, and any additional job-relevant questions like years of experience or typing speed. So if you're a white, non-veteran, able-bodied, Anglo male with no prior experience that scores 100% on the exam, you may be only #37 on the ordered-strictly-by-government-regulations interview list. The hiring agency would have to reject 36 other applicants and show good cause for doing so before even calling you.

Greater familiarity with that process bred a whole lot of contempt. Let's just say that I shudder to think of what government might have been like now had the federal government doubled down on exams in the 70s instead of abandoning them.
I see the PaperLike is finally shipping. Here's a review:

http://the-digital-reader.com/2015/07/10/one-week-with-dasun...

It's a 13 inch eink monitor. Refresh rate is apparently reasonable. The price is ludicrous, unfortunately, because I want.
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Cellphones used to include unlimited forwarding so I would set my cell phone to forward to the BBS I wanted to call and then I would call my cell phone with my terminal software. Cell phone companies figure that out and limited the number of minutes allowed for forwarding.
Not really.

Is there room to debate the notion of artificial scarcity and copyright limits? Sure. Does a creator of a work sacrifice all rights to distribution simply by the act of creation? Nope.

Or, in a more real-world example, if I found out a religious organization was using one of my original works as a soundtrack to a commercial - without my consent or receiving compensation - I'm going to fight to keep my rights to tell them to shut it down. The implication of your statement is much more problematic.
1. If you're going to tax universities, then you need to tax churches too. Good luck.

2. If you're going to tax non-profits, then why have non-profits?

3. Do we really want to penalize fiscally responsible organizations when even governments are going bankrupt? What values are we trying to support here?
Well, obviously Abad's come out about his involvement. But we don't know that the other devs weren't using any tools earlier. If you know more about this, share it.
"The quickest and most painful solution to the crisis would involve greatly reducing the amount of money that students can borrow to attend college."

I suddenly think I agree. But I don't expect it to happen.

The major downside, of course, is that a significant fraction of young Americans won't be able to go to college. (The corollary, that they won't be able to find jobs, is pretty much taking care of itself: they won't be able to find jobs anyway.) By and large, going to college is a good thing in itself: being exposed to challenging ideas and different people is good for an individual and for a democratic populace, even if I (or you) don't agree with the opinions someone ends up having. But in an environment like this, that isn't really going to happen.

The other downside is that some people (a small minority?) with limited financial means won't be able to reach their full potential. Take someone who could have gone to MIT and invented brilliant new things after being exposed to the full range of difficult ideas. Instead, they go into a job training program and come out excellent at a limited range of very marketable skills. (In the article's situation, essentially all computer science, software engineering, information systems, and so on are job training programs, so....) Perhaps that's actually a positive, as far as the individual is concerned, but it's certainly an opportunity cost overall.
The Infinite Hotel Paradox
Yes, pools and lines are rapidly changing the options here and allow you to pay a premium for convenience and rapidity - to potentially reduce the number of cars on the road.

These might be helping to encourage last mile usage, the questions are whether it's A) available B) successfully reducing car ridership.
There's an adage: “A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.”
I can only think he was a piece of shit for prohibiting engineers to be emploeyed in other tech companies
Yahoo actually came up with something similar http://acss.io/

Benefits over just using inline styles:
1) support for pseudo-classes (:hover)
2) reduce markup bloat (shorter class declarations vs equivalent inline-style declarations)
> I also have a sneaking suspicion that the raw statistical analysis of such a test from the U.S. in 1975 would show a lot of intrinsic racial, gender, political, and age biases.

Of course. Public institutions in America are a total joke now because they're riddled with patronage posts and affirmative action hires. Any test that actually works is going to be "racist" and "sexist."