skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two things that come to mind.

1) it's impossible to compete with ad-supported "free" services in a large-scale way. Any competitor to YouTube that tried to pay their bills only with paying customers can't succeed. This makes me think that we need some kind of anti-trust like law if it doesn't already exist to cover situations like this.

2) No YouTube red in most countries. I have been hit by this "delay" because I use an adblocker, but when I try to give YouTube my $9.99US a month I'm refused.

Of course, I have no implicit right to use YouTube in the way of my choosing but I would like to see them act in good faith towards me when I try to with them.
Nothing you've said is an argument against anything that I said.

If you think that it is, then you think I've said something I haven't said.
It's the digital age. I am recorded on video at minimum, I would expect four times a day. I'm not a criminal. I'm commuting to work. The digital age has eroded the privacy that generations before us were able to take for granted. Does Obama want to eliminate the only guarantee to privacy that still exists in the digital age? The fourth amendment states: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated." I wouldn't expect to be able to exercise that right, in any sense at all in the digital age, without encryption.
As a Red subscriber, I can tell you that the opposite is probably true. When there's no longer any risk of being annoyed by unskippable ads, you tend to click on a lot more video links (and waste a lot more time.)

YT Red is worth it IMHO.
Facebook has spent a lot of time and man hours working around a lot of the issues most people have with PHP. Throw enough talented engineers at it (or any language), and they'll come up with some mighty creative solutions. It's not like they can do a rewrite, nor should they when they've obviously managed to make it work for them. Plus, their investors would kill them. Very, very slowly for such a boneheaded idea.

Anyhow, most new startups don't really have the resources to do anything remotely like that. Best to choose a well-established language that works well for your needs with manageable downsides.
> the question then becomes how much they can do so
> without driving some traffic to secondary sites

Pretty far, while Adblock allows you to whitelist some sites. YouTube, boardingarea.com, and listentotaxman.com are the only sites I have whitelisted, and presumably have had forever.
Its a cylinder that performs canned transactions in response predefined audible commands.

Accurate language processing is a huge technical achievement but let's not elevate this particular use of the technology to more than it is. It's a clapper with more functions. When a device like this can actually understand the commands or queries its given we can call it something more.
What led you to choose the label "jerk"?
Point to the place where I argue against allowing construction.

I'm making a more nuanced point: indiscriminate high-end construction doesn't help, and that's what you get in SF without the kind of planning that people in this debate like to call "NIMBYism".

I'd personally love it if someone were to build 1000 units of affordable housing. The thing is, nobody is gonna do that unless they're forced to do it -- in this town, it takes years of fighting to get a fraction of that number built (for example: NEMA phase II had 52 'affordable' units built, out of a total of 489. Those other 437 units have some of the highest rents in San Francisco.)

http://sfist.com/2013/11/18/middle_class_screwed_in_current_...
> I believe (and I would assume you do to) that widespread encryption is the preferable choice over key escrow, but let's not pretend that ready accessible consumer hard encryption doesn't fundamentally alter the balance between government and its citizens (including in some morally questionable ways).

It has existed for centuries. Ease of access isn't some magical balance of power altering problem.

People can break encryption through various attacks [Keyloggers, observing people entering their keycodes, etc]. The government should have to go that route too, just like they do to break into literally everything else. They hire a professional.

Encryption isn't some magical shield and is breakable without attacking it directly.

http://www.wired.com/2012/11/ff-the-manuscript/

> For more than 260 years, the contents of that page—and the details of this ritual—remained a secret. They were hidden in a coded manuscript, one of thousands produced by secret societies in the 18th and 19th centuries. At the peak of their power, these clandestine organizations, most notably the Freemasons, had hundreds of thousands of adherents, from colonial New York to imperial St. Petersburg. Dismissed today as fodder for conspiracy theorists and History Channel specials, they once served an important purpose: Their lodges were safe houses where freethinkers could explore everything from the laws of physics to the rights of man to the nature of God, all hidden from the oppressive, authoritarian eyes of church and state. But largely because they were so secretive, little is known about most of these organizations. Membership in all but the biggest died out over a century ago, and many of their encrypted texts have remained uncracked, dismissed by historians as impenetrable novelties.
While this particular article doesn't mention it, in Nautilus's defense, Leopold's "Thinking Like A Mountain" concept is the focus of the first "Related Article" linked at the bottom of the page: http://nautil.us/issue/101/in-our-nature/what-the-deer-are-t...
OTA TV is free. It's free because the network pays for it via ads. If you aren't watching ads, then you're effectively not paying for the content.
Dell releases new XPS 13 Developer Edition
Ask HN: Best book to learn practical Java?
What is your single most go to book for learning Java ?

I am not looking for reference books with 700 or pages, rather something hacky that shows how to write code as you would on a professional job.

I am looking for book to write data services.
E.g. In Pig and Spark you can write User Defined Functions. I want to write such functions and java modules, packages.

As there are so many experts here, can anyone give direction where to start ?

What exactly Spring, Swing, Hibernate is used for ?

I particularly want to avoid any web development using Java at this point. Are Spring, Swing, Hibernate things to avoid ?

Again, please recommend books and tutorials. I know google brings thousands of results but I would take human intelligence and recommendation over Google any time.
Hello All,

Jarrod from Code42 here. Sorry about the scare. Wanted to clarify a few things.

If a restore has been initiated from the archive of the device in question it's considered "connected" and your data won't be deleted. To be clear - no automated process is going to remove your data while you’re restoring.

You are correct in your assumption about the other devices— we are in the process of enforcing this policy when we previously haven't. We realize that many users won't be aware of this existing retention policy. That's why we've been testing different messages to small batches of users (small meaning .3% of our user base) and seeing how they respond.

Like the email says many of the affected archives are from backups that were once connected to an older device. This often happens because people aren't aware of our "adoption" process that is used to connect and existing backup to a new device. Because silent, continuous backup is very "set it and forget" many folks just end up backing up their new machine instead of getting rid of the old backup. Bit by bit the data in those forgotten archives adds up. Thus why we’ve begun enforcing this policy.

We’re trying to learn as much as possible from these small test batches so that we can clean up some of these “dusty archives” as we call them sooner rather than later while making sure we do right by our customers. I’ve certainly learned a lot from the feedback you’ve provided here.

Please let me know if you have additional questions.

Best Regards,

Jarrod
We still use locks on doors, even though they provide security theatre only. Not everything needs to be that secure. Criminal nuisance laws are probably enough to deter anyone actually turning on all lights at 3am.
Right, and the group with access is presumably much smaller.
Code generating backend for SBCL, like one in LLVM?
Maybe the wrong thread for the question, but what is the appeal of an 8hr recut of the movies? What is being added?
I don't have to do that, I can just use an ad blocker.

Besides, what are you complaining about? If you don't like people's opinions, go launch your own forum where you're free to pay for useless ads all day long and ban anyone who disagrees.
JS scene desperately needs a moratorium on tooling just like Python did on language features 5-6 years ago.

Actually the language also needs a total freeze in features. ES5, ES6, transpilers, this and that and bla bla. I used to love language geekery, not so much after a few years of JS exposure. And now there is WebAssembly which is supposed to be a "game changer". Fuck that. I don't want the game to change anymore, I just wanna play.

Or perhaps, I'm just getting old.
The problem is I could not finish this rambling stream of consciousness. I bailed and went to the comments so I could have some idea of what it was about and whether it would be worth slogging through.
You mean if you had to pay per video/per view?
Why do you think they can revoke the keys?
Your fight against ads is a pretty selfish endeavor. Sure, there are some sites which abuse ads, but by visiting a website, you are getting a free service. And for YouTube, the cost is that you sometimes have to wait 3-15 seconds for an ad to play. Blocking ads on YouTube takes away from video content creators and Google.
Yes, by no means let me claim that the idea is new.

Didn't mean to seem that you were claiming that. I just think it's interesting how long this idea has been lingering.

The syntactic default matters a lot.

Oh yeah. We Smalltalkers, true to the Hot Air balloon mascot, talked a lot about such things, but we never did anything about it that mattered. A couple of people implemented Traits, and a few shops probably used them, but since there was no Smalltalk standard with real teeth, no one would bother to implement anything.
>It's quite different from SimCity, but I agree that both games are enjoyed by a similar audience for similar reasons.

Definitely. Factorio has a crafting system, so that's a major difference.

I'd say the "similar reasons" you mentioned above are twofold:

a) You design systems and observe how they behave. There's kind of an awe or wonderment associated with watching how living, breathing systems behave within a complex simulation.

b) There's also a feedback loop where the player attempts to make their systems more efficient. This kind of massages a specific part of the brain in people with OCD tendencies, generating huge amounts of pleasure.
Researchers say Disney/Pixar movies underrepresent poor/minimize hardships
BTW, language implementations which rely on LLVM for code generation would get it for free. Well, for much less pain.

BTW2, time to appreciate how LLVM's approach is superior to JVM madness/religion (and how Golang's is even more clever - do less by doing it right - essentiaistic/minimalistic ascetism)
> The learning curve is very flat

So if the graph's x axis is time and y axis is the amount of stuff you learn, then a flat learning curve means that you gain very little added knowledge as time goes by. And a steep learning curve means that you learn a lot in a small amount of time.

It always confused me why is it backwards.
This also falls under Section 2 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms of Canada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Charter_of_Rights_and...
I have a basic question about prop 13. I though the point of not increasing property assessments is so that if rich people start bidding house prices around you, your property taxes don't start to increase.

But as I dug into this, this doesn't make sense. The community has certain expenses. These get divided based on the value of the homes. If all homes double in price but the community expenses stay the same, it is irrelevant to have different assessment amounts on homes. I've heard the term "mil rate" and am not sure what that is, but is perhaps relevant. Any experts willing to clarify?
> First, guns are physical things where encryption is (largely) ideas.

I don't see what this means for the topic at hand.

> Second, the 'protection' offered by the two technologies differs. Guns offer a dis-incentive to mistreat the user, but do not directly restrict behavior when at rest.

Same here. What's the significance? Would auto-firing guns be better?
> demand that encryption is a fundamental right just as
> freedom of speech is a fundamental right

Is it though? Most human rights prevent law enforcement from random trespass in to your home to look through your things, which is arguably a human right too. But these are specifically overruled by a warrant.

Why should the content of your electronic data be more protected than the content of the paperwork (bank records, health records, etc) in your home?
> but be honest

You've elaborated on the benefits. What do you think the costs of generics are?
Exactly

Offer IaaS first, the PaaS. Google had it backward.

While AWS does have a small vendor lock in too, in the end it's still recognizable , I mean it's doable for example to move an AWS architecture to open stack without a major code rewrite. If you built your web app on GAE and GWT however, your investment to move it out of Google will be much bigger.
Show HN: How well can you understand image without seeing it? – Palpiction
What about the majority of manufacturers who are not developing self driving cars? There may be a market there for a bolt on solution.
"Mil rate" the number of thousandths of the property value assessed in tax each year. i.e. 20 mils = 2% of the annual property value is taxed. The actual property tax owed is rate x assessments.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_tax
Can anyone tell me where to start on all of this as a self-taught beginner? I feel like I follow tutorials well and get basic apps up and running via tutorials. I've even built some basic tools in use by a handful of people at my job with Node and Meteor. But the minute I try to dive into React and some of these more professional tools in the ecosystem, I find myself totally lost.
Most of Europe and Australia give you a month plus of vacation but you do need to factor in less pay than the US.
Please don't be uncivil on Hacker News, whether someone else is wrong or not.
I like the idea, but I'm a bit surprised that there doesn't seem to be a clear way of "flagging" a comment, other than downvoting it. I suppose this is an indication that I'm accustomed to some sort of moderator, but this seems like a necessary feature to have.

Come to think of it, this is actually a really annoying problem. The implication would then be that some person (or people) claiming a certain amount of responsibility for the Publication would routinely check the flag-queue. This sounds like one of those things that seems like a tiny overhead cost, but in fact is extremely annoying.

Hmm. I suppose GitHub is sort of like a model in this space, and they have not suffered too much from this problem yet. The only recourse there is to block a user, right? Perhaps people who bother using GitHub aren't malicious on average.
I am pretty sure blocking Youtube ads is the lifeline for most ad-blockers...
>If you believe, as many people do, that all animals should have the same basic rights

I don't believe this, and I don't believe any reasonable value for "many people" do either. Most people are not vegetarians or vegans. Most people do not hate zoos. Most people do not hate farms. Most people do not take offense at the keeping of pets.

Captivity is a great example of human ingenuity and dominance. It's good for everyone, including many of the animals that are kept captive.

>In the future, human animals will look back with revulsion at the way we currently treat other animals.

I totally disagree. Humans have not yet developed this type of serious revulsion on a macro scale, even though animals have been kept captive for thousands of years and across all human cultures.

If you want to say some of the extremes of captivity are inhumane, then great, you'll get no argument from me there. But I fundamentally disagree with anyone who believes that captivity as a whole is improper.
"Alexa, cancel my health insurance"

"Alexa, call 911 to this address"

"Alexa, delete all my photos. Yes confirmed"
In response to the inevitable "No wonder they're extinct; those biologists in the 19th century were collecting them all indiscriminately". When they were collecting, these creatures were common as dust. And now these collections are the only way we know that some of these species existed at all.
I suspect a data breach or exploit of cloud storage or other service providers is more likely for most consumers than an attack on their device following theft or loss.

For both privacy and protection against criminals, cloud storage must become as impregnable as our physical devices. Do we truly lack the will or creativity to produce custodians who cannot recover our data without our permission?
The only difference is that more people use encryption then guns.

And what affects me is most important, morals be damned. /s

Majority oppression is very effective. And that's why I think this will turn out differently than guns. My prediction: you won't have to register encryption keys, or keep it disabled, or pay the state some ridiculous amount for a permit that they illegally stonewall, or be prevented from using any encryption made after 1986.
Fair enough (for people in those countries)
Disney/Pixar movies are supposed to be feel-good movies for children.

Of course they don't represent reality, and they shouldn't.
Mind your own damn business, Barack
Were the Mysterious Bog People Human Sacrifices?
You should still want the benefits of open-source wireless. Only the open drivers will benefit from new algorithms for per-packet transmit power control (https://github.com/thuehn/Minstrel-Blues) and queuing/QoS that is designed for wifi (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/401202). Plus, the open drivers get bug fixes to the point that they're actually stable.
Yes, you are right. My thinking was flawed.
Disney's core product is fiction. Fiction in the form of entertainment. Entertainment that distracts from the realities of life.

__fiction__ noun. Literature/media in the form of prose, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people.
Is there a boilerplate repo somewhere with all these frameworks and tools combined? Would love to dig more into this but configuring them all together would take me days.
Transactional logs. It's like double-entry accounting. You build the state by keeping each transaction and then processing them in order. You can obviously cache at intervals. This allows for a full audit trail. Bitcoin is also a sum of a complete series of transactions.
Ad blocker for now is free.

Disclaimer: I have Youtube Red
Apple should move os development offshore, citing a hostile environment for developing secure systems in the US .
Already happening. Tools (like https://gelato.io) provide auto-generated docs, live test-console, code snippets and SDKs from your Swagger file. It comes with a free plan for OSS projects.
I like this.

“Then you get up from that nap pod and let me get into it,” said Toad “because I have been crushing it for days and need to chill.”
The reality is that these tools, eventually, are used by businesses trying to build stuff efficiently.

If we were to have a hackathon, and I could use the stack I have at work (which contains some of these tools, plus our own secret sauce), I'll trash anyone who's using script tags on a page.

Things like webpack, commonjs, npm, etc, are ways to bring that to everyone.

If you're making a little one off or a small project, then anything you're comfortable with will work. Heck, go and use a tool just because you like the logo. It won't make much of a difference.
The progressing then? Or the processive, if it existed in english.
>But when you get down to matters of morality and ethics, I believe we do see a clear progression over time.

"Morality" and "ethics" do not have clear objective definitions, nor do they exist on a straight continuum. Most practical applications of morality and ethics are complex and involve a substantial portion of grey area. Morality and ethics change based on the perspective of the culture; they change based on time and place. This should show that, barring a few simple cases, they are not objective verities.

However, most humans do end up falling back to the same social structure and basic social codes. They do, after a few generations, admit defeat and openly reject what many a century prior had considered the society's moral manifest destiny. It is true that over time, numerous cultures and societies have attempted to modify these basic structural arrangements, but invariably these entities dissolve and humanity as a whole continues in a manner that is quite similar to how it has always continued.

When you're discussing how future generations will perceive things, it is best to do it with a historical perspective that considers more than a single place and more than 100 years of history. I believe that if one does this, the likelihood that any specific social agenda that's not the basic one dictated by the fundamentals of human biology and sociology (the universal rules around pairing, mating, and raising children) will be accepted as self-evident truth becomes quite remote.

>Most people are good in the sense that they do not want to harm other living beings; caring about animal suffering is just a natural outcome of that. In other words, most people don't need to be convinced on the merits of the issue. What most don't yet realize is the huge extent of the problem, and that there are good alternatives.

There's a big difference between opposing the extreme tactics of factory farms and opposing animal captivity in general. Blackfish's producers and supporters oppose captivity in general, and are trying to generate outrage with the orca as their first test case.
Cool. That makes sense. Is there a reason they use 1000? Just convenience/convention?

Also .. my question about prop 13 stands. Curious why increasing home values would cause an issue if municipal spending stays constant?
Not letting tech-savvy-me having good thing for free is the new evil~
You'll probably like forecast.io as well.
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Use ublock, people. Adblock sells out.
Yeah, there's also the fact that you can't use a digital private key as a physical murder weapon in quite the same way.
SF is half as dense as Brooklyn. The major supply constraint is not geographic, its land use regulation.
If Cruise is hard depends on the end goal. If it's a fully autonomous vehicle, yes that's hard.
>You will never be able to outbuild what Facebook, Google, and the like can pay their workers.

"Never" is a long time. Mature companies don't continue with gangbuster growth, and eventually company management has to look around for savings. San Francisco isn't immune to what happened to the rust belt cities.
Is anyone shocked that our President backs fewer rights to privacy? He's lied about every promise he made on the campaign trail, and has made America a much more dangerous place to live.