skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The people in other regions don't have "every right to copy it", they have "every right to not consume it". Don't like the rules? Don't play. It's their content, so they set the rules.

>But nothing gives you the "right" to force your way into someone else's party just because you weren't invited, or didn't like the ticket price.

Completely wrong on both counts.

If I'm not invited to someone else's party, but I want to observe it without interfering with the partygoers, I have every right to invent a device which allows me to create an artificial wormhole which then allows me to remotely observe this party (see the Arthur C. Clarke book "Light of Other Days"). The partygoers will have no idea I'm observing them and since they wouldn't sell me a ticket anyway, they won't see a difference in their revenues.

Similarly, if content holders don't bother to offer their wares to me and then make it too difficult for me to acquire them with a workaround (subscription + VPN), then I have every right to download a copy. As above, they have no idea that I'm watching their content, and since they didn't offer it to me for sale anyway, they won't see a difference in their revenues.

>if you're then going to condone what is essentially an unethical response yourself.

I'm not condoning an unethical response, I'm condoning an ethical one. Ethics are in the eye of the beholder; for some people, it's completely ethical to hack someone's head off if they don't follow the correct religion. I choose to reject your system of ethics which grants all power to large, moneyed interests.
These are moderately common. Pointed ends (without numbers) and skinny triangles that approximate a cylinder (with numbers) roll nicely and, allow unusual face counts. But I've actually seen it most often for the humble d4 which has a reputation, in some circles, for not rolling great in its usual tetrahedral form.
Yes. Checkout git-annex assistant if you want folder icons and GUIs and such.

A couple days ago I contributed https://github.com/DanielDent/git-annex-remote-rclone to git-annex, so in theory you could use Dropbox as a backend for git-annex if you wanted to (I haven't personally tried it with Dropbox).
Interesting how this is written as a traditional press release rather than software release notes like most other open source projects
Inside the World of Professional Rock Paper Scissors
First-Class Commands
A big problem is that chained floating point operations are a O(sqrt n) martingale.

Also, some floating point ops that use pade approximants (most log algorithms, sin, cos) lose onoe or two precision points (versus half for arithmetic ops) of floating point accuracy.
They tried. And the result is that as they got press and notoriety people took their open plans and made replicas in China and sold them at a cost that massively undercut MB.

If they had stayed open source they would have gone under years ago, probably years before Systrays bought them.

Open hardware doesn't really seem to be a sustainable business, at least not when what you're making costs as much as a 3D printer. A brand name isn't worth a ton when an identical rip-off product is 40% cheaper and performs the same.
stereotypical BS
Certainly 30% is a big impact if it's your day job, but it's unlikely that the transportation infrastructure of the US would be dramatically different. (After all, gas prices had $2/gallon fluctuations that persisted over many years without much impact.) Also worth pointing out that the OP article lists labor as 75% of the cost (which is very different than the source I used).

I'd be very glad to see truck taxes/fees adjusted to better match reality. If that means less truck and more trains, all the better. Still, it's not clear to me that trains don't also get implicit subsidies (that are just less discussed because trains don't inspire as much politics), or that the positive externalities of trucks are important, or whatever.
Nice summary. It's worth pointing out that Haskell has nearly all of these properties. The Safe Haskell subset is needed to avoid FFI and segfaults.
Cap gains is genuinely different from earned income in that you have to risk your capital to get it, and you have to risk your capital in a way that at least on some margin has social benefits.

Like, if I invest $10k for a year in the hopes of getting 6% return, that's a thing! I could've gone on a really swank vacation for that $10k, or I could've bought a really nice TV or whatever. Instead, I took that $10k and I said, okay, maybe this will give me $600. Or maybe I'll lose $1k instead.

But let's say it pays off, and I get $600. But it's taxed. If it's taxed at 20% (current cap gains), I get $480. If it's taxed at ordinary income (and my income is high), I get $360.

That's not irrelevant. I might pretty reasonably say "Man, in order to get a chance at $360, I'm tying up $10k for a year? And maybe I lose some of the $10k instead?"

And it's particularly relevant if this belief that cap gains should be taxed as ordinary income is paired with a belief that the top marginal tax rate for ordinary income should be higher than it is.

We've seen, all over the place, recently, that the financial sector responds to incentives. When it becomes hard to generate a return through traditional means, the financial industry chases returns no matter what. Sometimes the consequences of that are kind of scary. Now, if someone understands all that and has a considered opinion that none the less capital gains should be taxed as ordinary income, well, okay. But I've never actually seen anyone tackle all that. Instead, it's always one pithy sentence like "it should be treated as income, since it is."
I'm assuming this is backwards-compatible with 5.X?
Simple voxel explanation
Hi everione! Can someone explain to me how in the h works a voxel engine?? I'm a razonable programmer, but if you could explain in details wold be great. Thank you!
No hard feelings‚ Vodacom: 'Please Call Me' inventor after court victory
Google Photo's public but unguessable URLs
>> False Dichotomy

> A) accept their authority and adopt their moral schema, or B) reject their authority. There are no other options. All other possibilities are subsumed by one of these two, in one way or another.

Maybe you need to Google "False Dichotomy?"
babel sucks - I never though I could hate something so strongly.

Just today I had to deal with the fact that babel wraps ALL your generators in some shit function.

Why ? just why ? generation function was supported in browsers longer then the age all the babel maintainers combined.

The worst part is I do not use babel myself - I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole but am forced to use it due to my stupid cowokers writing everything using babel - ( why does babel need .babelrc file ?? - is babel such a prominent part of your life that you need .rc files ?? and why does the .rc file need to be specified in every freaking folder ! )

1) babel's docs are also terrible

2) The people maintaining babel seem to actively market babel and then at the same time ignore questions and requests for better docs from the community.

3) Slowest compiler I have had the pleasure of dealing with - my babel watch process consumes a grand total of 150 MB of memory !!

Edit - had to follow HN guidelines
NYC is the best comparison to Singapore because they have comparable population and density. Memphis is a relatively tiny city with 650k people.
Goldman Sachs is doing something that would have been unthinkable before 2008
Human beings don't have the ability to just attain knowledge and experience by a software updated, autonomous vehicles do. Yes, every autonomous truck on the road may be controlled by the same software exhibiting the same behaviors, but unlike a human they can all automatically be updated with new behaviors and share experiences with each other.

This is precisely the goal of IBM's Watson if you will remember, an individual doctor only has their own experience - Watson can aggregate data from a virtually infinite number of data points and that knowledge and experience is shared across the network.

Will accidents happen? Yes. But we can learn from them and the collective as a whole benefits, not one individual instance.
Tekki
Yeah, I know, there are cases where it matters. But I suppose many of these cases are also the ones where performance (and a hardware implementation) matters, and you're better off designing your algorithm to deal with roundoff error than use a magically precise FP implementation.
Isn't this pretty much the same as the old OneDrive? for windows 7?
Windows Updates Offline Installer
Why does netflix care so much? Doesn't just blocking ip's by country satisfy whatever legal requirement? Do the contracts with content provider specifically require netflix to maintain a list of VPN providers and block them?
Unfortunately that PDF doesn't mention little features like the notebook rendering it seems.
I think not everyone needs to be able to code, but everyone needs to understand that something like code exists. They need to know that the apps on their devices are not just magic icons that appear because of fairy dust. They need to understand that software is built by humans, and that they have the possibility to build their own, if they wish to do so.

Also, I think coding is a great way to teach problem solving, but maybe using something like blockly or other visual programming tool may make this easier by removing the hurdle of learning a programming language's syntax.
If someone is into BDSM or some sort of role playing that doesn't line up with my own (admittedly vanilla) vision, good for them. But everyone I've known who's into that scene takes an even stronger position on consent than the "affirmative consent" standard: they negotiate boundaries with their partners up front, and they agree on specific safewords that are given absolute respect. We don't generally ask that much of most people!

What models of "amazing sex" do you have in mind that would not satisfy at least an affirmative consent standard? As I said, I literally can't imagine such a thing, so I'd welcome further insight.
if it's supported in the hardware, you could turn off those gates altogether and save energy.
Probably you'd like to hear this. "Copyright" is in a controversial and heated debate. Corporate evil becomes too rich to start to define what they want. The point of running an ad-blocker is not just that ads are annoying, but i don't want corporate media to get a step further toward absolute power over consumer (which is my side). Knowledge eventually should be free enough.

For example, in hotel industry, you open the fridge for 5seconds, that charges to the bill, and they tell you it has become industry standard everywhere, you'd eventually accept it that they're producing electricity for your service (even just 5 seconds of opening the fridge, and dont touch anything).

I got upvote for simple jokes, but never got upvote for invested comment. I dont understand why, but meh..
I'm not going to read the article and just assume that it boils down to, "You roll it"
The big advantage of declarative frameworks (not just React - many are moving in this direction) is that reasoning about your application's state becomes much easier. This is because when you take a declarative approach, your application's state is kept separate from the DOM, and the DOM is a function of the application's state.
Mozilla of today is run by designers, webheads and "social" personas.

As for encrypted email, it could be made very simple. When you set up an account in Thunderbird, have it ask a simple question "do you have an encryption key?". If the user hits no, generate the key pair, and insert the public key by default.

Then starts harvesting public keys from incoming emails, and encrypt by default if sending to an address that has a known public key.
Ask HNs: Who would you hire?
We interviewed a couple of guys: One guy who seems average to slightly above average guy.

Another guy appears to be rockstar, but seems like he is going to be hard to work with it. He "seems" to know it all, but seems like a dick.

I am leaning toward to candidate 2, but I don't know.
Uh, this is exactly the type of thing that FUSE is good for. Doing this as a FUSE layer would be way way easier than for Windows (unless they used Dokany[1], and they probably didn't) or god knows what you have to do to get OS X to support user-space filesystems.

1. https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany
Except not at all because one is all about compiling for speed and tweaking cflags. The other is about a rolling release as better desktop distro model.

Sure both distributions let you build your system from scratch but the days upon days of compiling just to slightly optimize a binary is squarely a gentooism.
I'm just starting to learn Elixir and Phoenix. Here are two little bits of "magic" that have thrown me for a loop so far:

1. @var's in templates are not module attributes (though they do seem to be convenient!)

2. The form for `use` is different in Phoenix than it is in Elixir proper – instead of passing opts, you pass an atom that selects the implementation of __using__ you want. (This bit of magic makes no particular sense to me – why wouldn't you just use a submodule, say MyApp.Controller, that has the correct and single __using__ attached?)
I think the reply would be... why do you feel entitled to consume content that you didn't create, in the first place?

You had the choice to stop watching... and thats the only legal choice. To pretend that doing something illegal because you feel entitled to it is right, thats a little bit... childish?
That's a pretty good point there about non-US studios taking this golden opportunity to expand their worldwide sales since the US studios are happily shooting themselves in the foot.
Next Monday you can browse and/or add yourself to the monthly discussion thread https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
Journalist Reveals What Life's Like as a Founder
This is already very entertaining :-) Thanks!
>The same way there has been a cultural shift away from domestic abuse and racism being acceptable (though they both have their stragglers).

Are you claiming that racism isn't the biggest reason blacks are struggling?
The 2nd design flaw is the positive void coefficient due to it using light water as a coolant and graphite as a moderator. In its scheme, the light water is a neutron absorber, and if steam voids form in it, there's less water absorbing neutrons. More neutrons -> more split atoms -> more heat -> more/bigger voids, this repeats until the reactor sufficiently disassembles itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Void_coefficient

Such designs are illegal in the US, one of the reasons all but the latest version of the CANDU reactor can't be used here.
I just want to second that, it's working perfectly.
Start writing every project, except web projects in C. You'll be an expert in a few years. You'll get really good at string handling. You'll start to "think in bytes".
On a related note, does anyone know if there's a way to tell Babel that your compilation target is Node.js v6.0 and only have it compile stuff that isn't natively supported yet?

Edit: Thanks for all the answers. I just went through the list of unsupported features and as I'm not using any of the remaining 7%, I might be able to get rid of Babel during development if I'm lucky.

Edit 2: Oops, still no es6 module support :(
Yes, but those projects don't generally include references to things that are "coming soon" in the readme.
It might be true of first world. I do not think that in poor countries like India where 100s of millions live on less that ~2 dollar a day any service could be cheaper than piracy. And I have seen people in India jump through hoops to pirate content rather than paying even a little for convenience.

Gabe Newell's observation seems to me a very limited view of the world by a spectacularly successful first world entrepreneur.
"Are you guys allowing full access to the machine now through LXC containers or some sort of VM?"

No - it is the customer, on the client side, that creates an sshfs mount representing their rsync.net account.

It works very well and it is very nice to have a plain old mount point that represents your rsync.net account - especially since you can just browse right into your historical ZFS snapshots, etc.

But in the past, people did that and they got the bright idea to rsync to that local mount point, to do their backups, and that didn't work well.

But my understanding is that nowadays it would work better - you wouldn't download every single file that rsync simply stat'd or listed ...

We still don't recommend it, though. No reason to add that complexity.
What makes you think they will be able to afford to, if you couldn't?

If you really feel that you are living beyond your long term means, you should act: you can make more changes now than you will be able to later, and as hard as it can be to accept - this problem isn't going to solve itself.
Microsoft Team Zero Bug Bounce (2004)
Makerbot Studio is in Industry City, where rent isn't exactly "expensive".[0]

Rent (for employees) is also very accessible in the nearby area, nothing close to Manhattan or some swanky neighborhood in BK. (I live nearby)

In my opinion, especially in technology, its just hard to operate at scale and not produce products in China. Not only is their labor force less expensive but the parts that you require are manufactured there as well.

[0] : https://commercialobserver.com/2015/09/brooklyns-sunset-park...
Generator functions do not have total browser support yet. IE11 does not support them. Node 6 is actually the first Node version with total support for them:

https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/
If you can't tell the difference between when its effective and when its ineffective, then the technique is worthless.
I found NixOS this year. Centralized configuration, predictable builds and easy rollbacks and I was sold.
It's really hard to provide an accurate cost and time estimate even with a BDUF.
git-annex also has the advantage of letting you keep data in multiple destinations (including in cold storage), which I think is becoming increasingly important.
i wish there was a distro that worked well with my hardware out of the box, preferably without any applications that i do not explicitly choose to install.

i have no interest in setting up pulseaudio/alsa or having to set nomodeset in my grub config for the 20th time.
Isn't Babel 93% redundant on the server side now? If you're not very dependent on the last 7% I'd just remove it.
The major version bump indicates there are changes that could break some use cases. There's a partial changelog [0] in the v6 release pull request.

[0] https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6383#issue-151012738
I've always been off-put by American Apparel's "Made in Downtown Los Angeles". Like I'm supposed to be impressed by it. For Middle America, it might as well say "Made in Downtown Dubai".
The average odds of a human-driven vehicle getting in an accident per 600 miles of driving is about 0.13%, according to the NHTSA. What's crazy to me is that, by the numbers, 99.99% safety would already be 13x better than our current situation. Imagine cutting traffic deaths down by a factor of 13. And that's still not good enough.

I think we need to get over the idea that computers are perfect, especially with regards to how artificial intelligence works. There will always be a situation that is unaccounted for, especially in our non-deterministic universe. It may be uncomfortable to think that a life was taken due to an error in processing, but I feel no better about having a child of mine in a car with a barely experienced friend driving and making many more errors in processing.
Hubble Discovers Moon Orbiting the Dwarf Planet Makemake
The article states no higher sided fair dice can exist:

"“ultimate fair die allowed by Mother Nature (i.e., mathematics!),” since a die couldn’t, practically speaking, possess more sides or more symmetry, and dice must be symmetrical to be fair."

Mathematicians is this true ? Or only "practically speaking".
The Background Myth in Venture Captial
Frankly I am pondering going back to Seamonkey (what used to be the Netscape/Mozilla application suite).
- You can put the babel configuration in your package.json.

- babel by itself doesn't actually do anything. It depends on the preset you chose. There are now a bunch of presets that leave parts of ES6 alone (i. e. to use ES6 import with webpack).

- I have actually never looked at the docs :). Never had a problem with it (unlike the package manager from config file hell, i.e. webpack).
The next step in this progression is that trucks report cars being purposefully a danger to them, with video evidence.
"Leaked" financial information that reflects positively on the company isn't leaked at all. It was deliberately released by someone internal.
VC needs more diversity of thought
I think that you could argue that as long as you download to a medium that has had the copy levy applied then it is OK. That would only work for audio downloaded to things like audio CD-Rs and the like.

Interestingly up to a few years ago it was pretty much legal to put stuff up on the internet and let others download it. The Canadian government had to pass a law to specifically address that. The funny thing was that during the period before the law there was an internet legend that downloading was OK and uploading was illegal when in fact it was the opposite.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_sharing_in_Canada
Released where? Download page still points to v4.4.3 (LTS)/v5.11 (current)
I don't know the answer, but this would be useful in general given that much of ES2015 is supported by Firefox, Chrome and Edge. It's enough that I can imagine having an "evergreen browsers" build and an "everybody else" build.
Seems to me that if you are a decently talented developer one would be able to adjust to whatever work methodology a company uses. It's a pointless thing to involve whether a candidate knows anything of the system currently in place. Every job I've worked has been different, some have even changed, and it's worked out fine enough.
Speed and responsiveness. Mosh renders on the server sending only changes, so a Ctrl+C or a dump like dmesg is crazy fast. Prediction makes a server in a different country behave as if you were there. Also, although you mentioned the connection breaking, this happens in iOS a lot and ends up being a pain, having to tap the server again and again.

With Blink, which is Mosh for iOS (I'm the developer @BlinkShell https://twitter.com/BlinkShell), you also get full keyboard support, with Caps as Ctrl, Alt as Meta, or any other combo you want to have. And a great terminal with full configuration of color themes, fonts, etc. beyond the standard included with the app. Everything a real terminal should have.
Other enterprises have built and shipped standalone applications built on XUL/XPCOM. Curious how the roadmap for XUL looks like in the midterm future.
I've been a front end developer for, well, quite a while, and in that time we've gone from cycles of around a decade (thank you IE6!) for new versions of JS to something closer to a couple of years.

The future, as I see it, is incredibly bright.
Security support for Wheezy handed over to the LTS team
You're right. missed the "Do not ask for the final goal of this: this is more a learning vehicle to abord several interesting topics." at first. You'll see I addressed this later on in the thread.
I tend to skim through the readme and dive in to the code when evaluating stuff on github.
Selling the loans forward sounds a bit weird system. In Finland it's usually the other way around -- customers may take their loans with them to another bank. This happens every now and then when competing banks offer better margins on the loans, or if customer isn't happy with the bank's service.
Where is your perfect weather? A service to find matching destinations in Europe
Considering that Pale Moon strips out accessibility in the first place, I'm not sure an extension designed to increase keyboard accessibility would be the best fit.