skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Private roads in the UK are residential, and usualy cul-de-sacs. They are paid for by the residents and poor Joe doesn't pay to drive on them because poor Joe doesn't live there and therefore doesn't drive on them in the first place.

It wouod surprise me mightily to find that the citizens of LA were funding public-access through-roads from the goodness of their hearts.
any law is unreasonable to enforce if the vast majority would break it unknowningly. this is the point of making the distinction between 'by the letter of the law' and 'in reality'.
that is a useful piece of information. i'll remember this in future... i'm sure it might come in handy.
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Its interesting. Back before I graduated a friend said I don't think ideas are worth much compared to executions, which turns out is a common quote thrown around with respect to ideas/startups/etc.

Quirky's whole concept (or my interpretation/critique) was that there was that idea generation needed to be scaled. But in practice, ideas were easy, particular by those industrial designers and wannabe designers, especially for cord management solutions...

The truth is, they were crowdsourcing the easiest part - the idea - and taking on all the risk themselves by bringing a bunch of 'inventions' to market, few of which were particularly revolutionary.
> If they even make it through the discovery process without going bankrupt, which is the explicit, admitted goal of their opponent.

No, it isn't. According to Business Insider, this is what was stated:

I'm fairly confident we will figure something out eventually, and this won't be a long-term problem. But I think they've got to face the music here. And we're going to have to figure that out unfortunately with a bunch of lawyers.

And here's the sad truth. You compare a 100-person company with 10, 30, 40 million dollars in the bank to a two-person startup. If it goes to litigation, if we're wrong, we'll win.

Right? We'll win. We'll put a giant law firm on it and we'll do all of the discovery and we'll do all the depositions and we'll win. And if we're right, we'll still win.

So it's not a great scenario. If you fork off a startup and there's IP overlap, it's just a big mess.

The Smule CEO doesn't at all suggest he's trying to put Shred out of business. Instead, he:

1. Seems to imply that a settlement is possible.

2. Laments the fact that this matter required legal action and that said legal action will put Shred's co-founders in a disadvantaged situation.

3. Acknowledges that this matter is the result of the fact that there seems to be some overlap between the kind of technology Smule creates and the kind of technology Shred creates.

Until Smule's claims are known in detail, it's premature to assume that Smule's action has no merit. Smule could be the good guy, or the bad guy. But lots of people here can't help but pick David over Goliath when very few meaningful facts are known.
>How many of the people here react positively when members of their family share their "internet computer experience" when trying to fix a computer? Yeah, thought so.

The difference is that people actually respect doctors and usually do what doctors tell them to--baring lack of money, time, or willpower, or some other quack like Andrew Wakefield telling them not to. Technology professionals by contrast aren't respected, and our advice (like "keep your software up to date") is often simply ignored regardless of how much we repeat it.

>Now, let's move on to the fact that the patient is saying "fix me" while the doctor is operating on "First, do no harm."

They're operating on "first, make as much money as we can." If they weren't, then medical bills wouldn't be the #1 cause of bankruptcy in the US.

>Now, add in people actively trying to scam you to get prescription medication.

Many countries (particularly in Latin America) don't allow doctors to act as gatekeepers to medicines and allow you to legally purchase almost any drug, with or without a prescription. To require otherwise is simply rent-seeking under the guise of protecting people from themselves.

>Just remember, doctors are running with the probabilities.

and running with scissors in the dark, apparently:
http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/12/17/statistical-literacy-am...
Complaining about "narcissism" has recently, and strangely, become part of our cultural milieu. I don't know what is really meant by that term or why it is supposed to be a problem. It seems like the intellectual boogeyman de jure.

If "Millennials" really are narcissistic, they will most likely grow out of it (whatever it is) in the normal course of, you know, growing up.

Separately:

> the philosophy that elevated individualism above all else

I don't know of any such philosophy in particular. Except possibly Ayn Rand's, which is not what he is talking about.

Enlightenment philosophy in general does elevate individualism, but not "above all else."
Method hashes (ObjC) != Vtables (C++). The former allows runtime introspection and modification that the latter doesn't, and the latter allows performance that the former doesn't.
For about half of the 19th century, France was not a republic either.
I'm not saying that this is how he or she did it, but you don't necessarily require leverage to negotiate well. Being charismatic and having people like you can often be as good or better than leverage, depending on the situation.
I've never heard of the idea that you should tip full amount. That sounds like one person's opinion rather than custom. I should provide the disclaimer that I haven't used a coupon when eating a meal, so I may not have had the opportunity to come across it.
I suppose like most class-action suits, each participant will get about $0.43 and only the lawyer will really benefit.

But in this case, it's still a great thing, as the main goal is punitive, to make copyright vultures feel some pain...
I read it as: Android is the world leader and free, whereas Windows & Apple are expensive, US-centric platforms.
That used to be the only way to compile C++: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cfront
It seems like a pretty straightforward grey hat operation to me. Google pays crackers to find competitors' vulns, publishes them to give said competitors bad PR, and maybe even gets a bit of good PR for itself for "internet security" mumbo-jumbo.
Have you thought about that beyond your knee-jerk reaction? One of the primary reasons for using cloudflare is resistance to denial of service attacks, and you want cloudflare to helpfully publish the real IP of the server CF is proxying for?

Scammers, thieves, phishing, and cybersquatting are weak or nonsensical reasons for demanding that CF reveal the IP they're proxying for. If a site is breaking the law, use the legal system to request the real server IP from cloudflare.

I suppose you're also against Tor, because it cloaks client-side evildoers like CF cloaks server-side evildoers?
You know what is sad and wrong thing here: YC companies have reputation and perception in my mind (by reading storied about BnB, Uber, heroku, rapgenious, etc.) that my initial reaction is that Shred founders are just typical hipster white kids who stole other's people hard work.

I'm 100% wrong with my initial reaction but if I'm YC I would look into this trend and perception in public.

Again I'm wrong and there should be no judgment here.
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We get pleasure from sating our hunger, quenching our thirst, getting warm when cold, getting cold when warm. Moreover, our brains just naturally produce pleasure chemicals when we are not in a state of fear, pain, anxiety, or severe need.

That is why each of us values his life---or should.

Now if we value our lives, we have to find a way to get along and not kill one another---and perhaps we can even trade with one another to mutual benefit. Thus, governments are instituted among men, by men, to serve men.

What was that you were saying about nothing having "meaning"? The pleasure we get from living is the root that makes all other values meaningful.

What was that about everything being permissible? Feel free to shoot yourself in the foot---just don't shoot mine, or I will shoot back. Feel free not to take care of and preserve that value that is your own life (per my first paragraph), but I will take care of and cherish mine.
Off by just a year, what a crazy coincidence.
> ...a copyright filed by the Summy Co. in 1935 granted only the rights to specific arrangements of the music, not the actual song.... "Because Summy Co. never acquired the rights to the Happy Birthday lyrics," wrote King, "Defendants, as Summy Co.'s purported successors-in-interest, do not own a valid copyright in the Happy Birthday lyrics."

So the lyrics are not covered, but is the melody?
I said the document was untrustworthy, not necessarily incorrect. It is too old to be relied upon. It's not a question of whether the material is accurate. Any lawyer advising a client would be negligent if he or she looked to such dated summaries of the law. They aren't worth reading given the many current summaries are available elsewhere. Now if the firm wants to reissue the document, then perhaps.
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Literally zero mention that in the event of a network partition they will just drop messages on the floor. This is fine as a cache, perhaps replacing Redis... but as a Cassandra replacement this is pretty scary
Anyone know if they're using React Native for this?
> I'm sorry, but the system call "calling convention" is different too.

Sufficiently different to not be a problem? As I understand it system calls don't usually rely on the stack whereas C calls do, and it is the stack mismatch between C and Go that is the issue.

> but it's sufficiently low-overhead that in most cases you can ignore the overhead

Maybe for user called function...but if every single system call had to swap out the stack surely that would have a pretty heavy impact...
Wait, does this load the full webpage first? It seems like it from the how it works explanation.

Because, in that case I'm not sure it does fit the criteria it proposes.

Instead, what it should do is keep a list of domains which are known to be ad supported, and then when the browser would send a page request for a page on that site, would instead not do that.

Why are you downloading the page if you aren't contributing towards the hosting costs by viewing the ads?

That is stealing just as much as you would be if you had any other adblocker running!*

No, it should /detect/ that the page is ad supported, but load it anyway the first time, and then block subsequent requests to the page all subsequent times!

* i.e. : not.

note: I don't run any adblock software other than a flashblock thing. If enough ads go to html5 video I might do something else though. Like only use webpages which don't use an unethical ad network.
Thanks for your thoughtful comments.

Relevantly, Shred Video doesn't even compete directly with Smule for customers. Smule is building a network of karaoke singers and aspiring music enthusiasts to create music together. Shred Video is building technology to help athletes and adventure travelers make movies.

For example, it's unimaginable that a user would consider Smule apps and Shred Video to be competing substitutes that solve a similar need. She'd literally be choosing between "do I want to use this Smule app to sing karaoke songs or play guitar with, or do I want to use this Shred Video app to make a movie from my snowboarding footage?"
Yes, thoughtful response, our lawyers are looking into this very strategy.
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SSLs.com, usually.
latency is still terrible on nvidia, using proprietary (as always) nvidia API you get usual no tricks AMD latency
For me, the signup page loaded once but now I get redirected to a 404 page at http://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage.html when trying to load the signup page.
As jbeda mentions, hardware errors are one big reason: with the scale S3/Azure/GCS/Backblaze operate at it's a matter of when and not if you're going to run into problems. Also: TLS may guarantee the bits your client sends are the ones their server receives, but that's just one cause of errors.

There's the write path from B2 receives your bits to when they're stored on disk, for one. You could have unforeseen bugs in the code sitting on the other end of their upload URL (it's probably not all theirs, and even if it was it was written by human developers).

Or B2's internal network path (if they have any) between that and the disk. Ideally that would provide integrity too, but maybe not. They offer a low price point and call out other compromises they make to achieve it (e.g. limited load balancing) - so while I really doubt it, it's remotely plausible they deem the internal overhead of SSL too high.

But then there's the potential for mismatch between "what the customer thinks they uploaded" and "what the customer actually uploaded" too! Less of an issue for now because their API only appears to support uploading files all at once, but eventually I'm sure they'll support a multipart upload scheme like the other platforms do. At which point uploads become more complicated since clients need to retain state and potentially resume. What if a client screws it up and there's some off-by-one error (or whatever)? If you can provide instant feedback, at upload time, that your clients provided bogus data, that's a good thing.

You can argue it's a painful requirement to force on users since it means they have to track/compute it themselves (might be nontrivial for streaming applications), which is fair. But there are enough points of failure, and the numbers so large, that errors happening is a fact and you really need to insure against it. Especially here, your entire reason for existing is to reliably store bits so it's kinda important to get it provably right.

It seems completely sensible to err on the side of caution, especially as a new and relatively unproven platform (as an object storage platform provider I mean, obviously they have tons of experience storing things).
I'm trying to get my head around what a CTL is anyway. I might be tired and a bit hungry (never helps my cognitive processes) but I was struggling to understand the Microsoft article I found here:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...
I've found that in any culture that prizes some quality, a vast number of "posers", who are virtually indistinguishable from the real thing, inevitably appear.

What's hot? Artists? Okay, I'll put colored squares on oversized canvases, hobnob in the best parties and call myself an artist.

Philosophers? No problem, I just write 2 or 3 hundred pages of absolutely incomprehensible word vomit and then refuse to answer any questions about the meaning.

Sculpture? I can learn basic welding skills.

It can be very very difficult to separate the cream from the crap in abstract fields.
Anyone have experience with Heroku alternatives like Openshift Origin?
Generalizations about entire nations, and about the French in particular, are tiresome and usually trite.

The French are incredibly successful at producing very smart people, whom they have exported to other economies for the last several decades, at least since the end of les trente glorieuses, or the post-War boom. French quants are famous on Wall Street and in London. Two of the most prominent researchers in deep learning, my field, are French: Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio. (Interestingly, they both pursued careers in North America.)

The author seems to be referring to philosophy when using the word "thought". Philosophy, like most of the humanities, is having a hard time in many countries besides France, so any analysis of its decline in France should examine transnational trends in university funding, department enrollment and the job prospects of philosophy majors, among other factors.

France has been in gentle decline for about 200 years, since Napoleon returned defeated from Moscow. They have not won a single war since then (spare me the air raids on Tripoli...). Their inability to conquer on the ground means they have exercised less and less influence in the world, despite having nuclear weapons and a seat on the security council. As an economy, they have slipped to 6th-largest GDP -- and third in Europe after the UK and Germany. No one talks about the death of German thought.

French was once on the language of diplomacy, but it's been on the wrong side of history even in the EU, where the accession of Sweden, Norway and Finland in the mid-90s made English much more important.

At home, the French have done little to renew their society or their elite, which is dominated by the alumni of a few elite schools. While Americans are aware of the ossified class structure of Great Britain, they remain largely ignorant of similar rigidities in France. But France is bad at helping its citizens realize their potential, and very good at employing bureaucrats to tell them "non." If they want better thinkers, they only have to look at the ridiculous layers of exclusion that they have built for themselves. Until they fix it, the best talent will surely flee.
You can't blame Warner, they're obviously just protecting artists rights to be creative and innovate.
Fyi, for anyone that has paid for a license. The fact that the copyright is dead does not necessarily mean licensing contracts are also void.

The obligations of contracts can and sometimes do survive the disappearance of underlying IP rights. If someone agreed to pay Warner 10$ for the right to sing Happy Birthday each time their movie airs on TV, that contract is likely still in effect. Consideration (what one party gives in a contract) is measured at the point of formation, not years later. An agreement to not to sue someone is not premised on the validity of that theoretical lawsuit. An agreement to not attempt something is still an agreement even if said attempt would prove futile. There are cases where a contracting party has been forced to shell out for something anyone else could use for free. So if anyone reading this has signed a licensing agreement, talk to your lawyer before ripping it up.
external GPUs? YES, but definitely NOT proprietary thunderbolt
I hope our favorite fast casual dining establishments carry on the tradition of singing bad and awkward “Happy Birthday To You” substitutes in spite of this
The name is a dead give-away. In Tolkien's stories, the palantir is a crystal ball which corrupts the mind of its user. At the least, the name strongly suggests that they lack a proper respect for the dangers of the technologies they're using.
"So it's weird to find out about oddly, deeply, conservative parts of French civilization."-and at best most French are culturally Christian/Catholic. Christianity is as dead in France (at least amongst non immigrants) as it is elsewhere in Western Europe. That's far from being conservative.
It certainly seems like a reach to just assume bad behavior on both ends.

Which actually, is one of the more insidious outcomes of making absurd claims against someone, even if they're completely false. People naturally respond "well, no one would be crazy enough to make something like that up, so there must be some truth to it."
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There is also this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f2PCWYAZQc
If you haven't already, you may want to look into "row polymorphism". I've been working on and off on a statically-typed stack-based language with type inference called Parles; it's not 100% yet, but you can check out my type inference algorithm in the git repo: https://github.com/gliese1337/Parles

I've got a few blog posts about it here: http://gliese1337.blogspot.com/2014/03/parles-language-with-...
A summary of the argument is in the judge's order:

"The distinction between the music and the lyrics as copyrightable elements is critical in this case because both Parties agree that the Happy Birthday melody was borrowed from Good Morning and entered the public domain a long time ago. The Parties disagree only about the status of the Happy Birthday lyrics. Defendants contend, in brief,
that the Hill sisters authored the lyrics to Happy Birthday around the turn of the last century, held onto the common law rights for several decades, and then transferred them
to Summy Co., which published and registered them for a federal copyright in 1935. Plaintiffs challenge nearly every aspect of this narrative. They argue that the lyrics may have been written by someone else, the common law copyrights in the lyrics were lost due to general publication or abandonment before the lyrics were published, and the rights were never transferred to Summy Co."

Page 10: https://www.unitedstatescourts.org/federal/cacd/564772/244-0...
Honestly, I see BPF being used for way more than tracing. Having generic kernel virtual machine is game changing for a lot of kernel/user interfaces if you can secure it a little more.
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Of course, if one member in a couple has $40 million dollars and the other does not, and the rich one files a lawsuit against the other without even first talking to her, one might consider that the two are not equally culpable parties.
The only reason I bake bagels is that they simply taste good. Sure it's bread, but the texture is very different (crackly crust, chewy but light interior) and the flavor is subtly different.

As far as I know, the shape is incidental, since the ones that end up shaped like buns taste just like the toroidal ones.
Nah - there are inherent moral intuitions in humans. Even gross abuse of political power has a footing in something real.

The Founders played this great Deist trick of the light - they appealed to a nonspecific $PROVENANCE as a sort of sum of all the good, without the smiting and the killing and the glaivin.

I think the real problem began with the Romantics, who were generally out of their depth. To the extent that this informed the French Revolution... so we have Burke, who take a sober look at it all and says some very intelligent things about it.