skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the post mentions, in most cases of mainstream media, we all agree to licensing our purchased media, not owning it, and so publishers and resellers assume that all media in our possession must be purchased, and so are under their control.

Of course this ignores user created media, or freebies, or gifts... but even for the purchased access, I always wonder about that forced (dare I say clickwrap?) licensing aspect. Why should I pay again for different format of same info (amazon format vs. epub)? Why should NYT force me to pay extra for tablet AND phone access to same content? Why should I pay extra for a digital copy of a movie that I already have on Bluray? And of course, why should I be forced to allow the publisher to control media on my drive?

We see this with books (printed books say that you have a license to read them, but not to redistribute in any way electronically without permission, even snippets or out of press books (the long running Google books issues) or Amazon revising kindle books on your device) and as the post mentions, we see it with music and movies/shows as well.

It's not as easy to distribute content these days as we may think; many book publishers tried direct to consumer ebook sales over the last few years and are pulling out of that game (the fact that o'reilly and tor worked so far is because they give flex and target techies). Libraries are shifting to emedia services like BiblioBoard and Hoopla which don't even let you download the content except in very restricted apps; instead, you read images online in a browser or stream only. The goal again is to enforce the licensing and get consumers out of the "own" mandate.

At the end of the day, content creators should have a say in how their content is consumed and sold, publishers have demanded a say, and resellers want to own the customer and their data. The current model is too adversarial; I hope we can come up with a way to reward content creators while still allowing a reasonable flexibility of consumption and appreciation.

PS: We seem ok when Netflix drops a movie because we understand we are renting access to their basket. I guess publishers want that too, only they want a higher per unit price with even more control. Sigh.
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I am from Brazil, we have stores and street vendors that sell pirated stuff, frequently more expensive than the original... people buy it due to better service and ease of payment. (example: pirated freeware, that was fan translated, while the original is only in a language noone knows here.)
Technology is destroying the idea of forgiveness
This is the clearest analysis of the situation. He is mentally unstable and needs help, not a media spotlight.
> I'd argue it's the strongest bullshit in the lot.

In many cases, however, it turned out to be true.

Irrational fact: different yet highly optimized creatures live on this planet. Future explanation: evolution.

Irrational fact: some stars move faster than others. Future explanation: planets orbiting the sun.

Irrational fact: the planets' orbits aren't circles. Future explanation: Kepler's laws.

etc.
The submitter confuses Ubuntu with Linux. The article's title is actually "Linux Kernel 4.4.x (Ubuntu 16.04) - Use-After-Free Local Root Exploit".
I have a lot of duplicate images from dropbox but I'd never known why until now. It just required me to get an additional app not by dropbox that evaluates images and deletes duplicates which took me a long time to find a good one as terrifying as that process is.
Why is it a JPG, is there a hidden message encoded in it or something?
Thanks, I didn't know about google photo's no restore issue, I'm going to check! But I recall there's a setting somewhere in the app that lets you choose if you want to delete photos from your device or not after they're backed up, but maybe I'm wrong. I'll check this evening and let you know.
I didn't read it as the GP justifying Apple's behaviour, he was just warning people that Google does something similar ("I thankfully have a local backup of the photos I took").
I is due to cost. I am aware of a few projects that were done with trial versions of the software stack, almost all the way up to a few months before delivery date.
He isn't trying to make new taxes exactly, he just wants his $100 million. Apple's so big, they shouldn't mind parting with $100 mil for no good reason, right? It's not like they have responsibilities to shareholders or something.
I don't see anybody rationalizing Apple's wrongdoing here, though. Whom are you referring to?
Not _that_ hard. Gradual transition should work.

If you like videogames, learn some OpenGL ES, apply to mobile game development position, if you’ll like the area, you’ll be able to continue career developing games for other platforms. If you’d like to move to MS stack, learn some .NET, then look for Xamarin iOS jobs, you’ll be able to continue career developing .NET for Windows. If you enjoy hacking, seek a job in a company that makes UI test automation tools for iOS, or iOS-related security software.

You already have experience dealing with all those iOS weirdness, you might be able to minimize or even negate that pay cut.
Proprietary software working against the interests of the user is not really surprising. What does surprises is how visible and immediate the effects are.

Seriously, just use free software.
Okay thanks, sorry of the confusion.
.. Unless you choose exactly that option when presented at install time. So people may regret getting exactly the behavior that they chose?
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You've picked a hell of a confounder there. Cuba's medical corps has been grown as if it were a civil defense project of a country on the brink. They have 2-3 times as many doctors as the rest of us per capita - but it's also a very poor country crippled by a lack of supplies and equipment, and doctors in Cuba often have second jobs where they get their actual income.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...
To be fair to people here, we're discussing a new message by a person who is widely perceived to be running some type of scam. I hadn't considered the more serious subtext of this message but given the history here you have to consider that that might have been intentional to try to engender sympathy.
>Yet everyone tells me that their Apple devices 'just work'. I don't have the same experience - I find their behaviour to be utterly opaque and non-deterministic. Am I alone?

Apple devices haven't "just worked" in over a decade. It's a testament to apples marketing that people still think this.
The lack of a Linux client really really pisses me off.
You should try Windows 10, I've been Apple free for a while now. I'll never go back to OS X.
> 5. Imagination is inside exponential space time events. 0/10. Markov chain output. "Space time events" simply doesn't refer to anything.

I'd give it a 0/10 too, but really, all concrete events are space-time events, in that they are locatable on the space-time continuum. Fictional, abstract, or hypothetical events may or may not be on the space-time continuum.
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Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11631292
Bitcoin definitely attracts fraud, but it's also teaching many people an important lesson in trust. Trust code and math as these things are ultimately verifiable.
This is a classic psychology journal ad-hominem:

https://guscost.com/2016/03/31/the-psychology-journal-ad-hom...
There has to be a joke in there somewhere, right? Maybe the article is itself a test!
My iPhone currently has two apps that somehow failed to install, and I can't delete them or open them. I tried rebooting the phone, signing in and out of the Apple store, all to no avail.
Not illegal at all. The DMCA expressly allows the Librarian of Congress to override this stuff, for exactly the reasons you raise.

https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2015/10/28/2015-272...
«Swiss 1,000-franc note here to stay, says national bank. Switzerland vows to keep world’s most valuable single-denomination note despite ECB moves to pull its €500 note to help fight crime and terrorism.»

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/16/1000-swiss-...

Fr. 1000 is around $1000. I got my car in exchange for fifteen of these purple beauties five years ago.
> They're all presumably adults, I'm sure they could get through some differing opinions, no?

I'm guessing you aren't from here/haven't been in Silicon Valley that long.
GP said that the use case does not require locking, but in PgSQL (which was mentioned) or Oracle, it does. The default transaction isolation level is not serializable. You don't read uncommitted updates, but reads are not repeatable unless you explicitly ask for that. If you do something like this (in a transaction):

select ... from T where <condition>;
...
update T ... where <condition>;
commit;

there is no guarantee that the row you are updating is the same as the one you selected, unless you add "for update" to the select.

Also note that two successive SELECT commands can see different data, even though they are within a single transaction, if other transactions commit changes after the first SELECT starts and before the second SELECT starts.

-- http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/transaction-is...

A query acquires no data locks. Therefore, other transactions can query and update a table being queried, including the specific rows being queried. Because queries lacking FOR UPDATE clauses do not acquire any data locks to block other operations, such queries are often referred to in Oracle as nonblocking queries.

-- http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14220/consis...
I have never enabled iCloud anything. There's an option during setup to skip iCloud setup.
Check out a video demo @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMQAocFg66M
ar0 is correct, it's now the default option. (I think at the beginning of the Photos beta it was the opposite.) To be super sure, you might want to double check your settings, Macworld has a how to guide here:

http://www.macworld.com/article/2955637/software-photography...
Medicare pays less than any private insurer.

Medicaid pays less than Medicare.
It could easily be true, if the wav is recorded at greater than 44.1kHz. However, the author probably meant to say "more data", as the wavs will have been (lossless) PCM.
I think you mean to say, "no one intended to communicate that Pinboard, the company, was a joke."
For serializability, all you care about it is some sequential order. You get that with hybrid logical clocks (http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/tech-reports/2014-04.pdf). It gives you a monotonically increasing timestamp that you can use instead of dumb version numbers.

On the other hand, if you want to ensure linearizability, you do care about the worst case clock drift, which in CockroachDB is a configurable parameter. One can adopt Google's Spanner's approach ("commit wait"), which is to wait out the response to the client to ride out NTP uncertainty (typically a few milliseconds inside a data center, but 100s of milliseconds in the wide area).
If you read the rest of his posts you will see he is very eager for the money (he even feels entitled to them, somehow), and don't want anything to do with YC.
Google's high quality... That's some deceiving wording right there. High quality are the originals, those are at the maximum optimized.
If I tell you to use my preferred pronouns is that just cause for taunting? I've had people say so in various instances offline and online. So I can't say there's really any room for that sort of behavior (at least offline).
Indeed! I can not understand the logic of using phone number in such apps while many security experts (like Jacob Appelbaum) call cell phones as little tracking devices which allow you to make call and send text with!
Such a disappointment!
It's also a first-class lesson to a lot of young technologists as to how financial regulations and the modern banking system came to exist in the first place. Thankfully bitcoin was so well designed that we can ultimately trust the math behind it, but the code is still malleable by people who may not have the network's best intentions in mind.
Zuckerberg's New Education Chief Helped Tech Launch Its Push for K-12 CS in 2010
So sick of my 7 year old getting math work and asking him what he did that day only to hear much of it was little more than coloring in.

They are leaving the hard stuff for homework.
Under the terms and conditions for these services, you typically grant the host the right to do whatever actions they need to in order to perform the service you ask of them. So you'd be unlikely to have a case on these grounds. I am not a lawyer.
MSIGNIA Issued Digital Biometrics Patent
> Apple pays a 2.3% effective tax rate on its $181bn in cash held offshore...

> ...shield themselves off from the theoretically 35% federal corporate tax rate

Something seems wrong here. I don't think companies are expected to pay 35% yearly on cash reserves. Am I confused, or is the article? If anyone is knowledgable about this I'd be interested to know the deal!
No because then you'd have to use a headless browser that can execute js. That increases time and cost when scraping, though it wouldn't surprise me if it ends up going that way.
If Apple is meant to pay a new tax based on their net income, then every business that operates in Cupertino should obviously pay the same tax. Let's see how that goes over.
The internet loves to shoot first and ask questions later, but there's some things we need to be a little more compassionate about. I understand it's in his MO to pull a trick like this, but let's at least see that he's ok before treating it as such.
exactly! every time i read about someone having a problem with something, i always check to see if my friends have had the same problem. if not, then clearly the problem doesn't exist. pri.ck
What happens if the Men Against the Republic of Korea go on a massive killing spree?

What if the Dudes Against Vermont Equality start blowing up bombs all over Vermont?

Silly examples aside, giving up a part of yourself and your life because of terrorism only serves to demonstrate the effectiveness of terrorism, which then serves to encourage more of it.
I had to chuckle at this passage from the first link:

> participants were shown a list of
activities (e.g., biking, reading) directly below the following
instructions: “Below is a list of leisure activities. If you are
reading this, please choose the “other” box below and type
in ‘I read the instructions’”. This attention check proved
rather difficult with 35.4% of the sample failing

The perils of using poorly compensated students for your studies!
It does make me feel like Ian Murdock tweets a little. I find the whole Satoshi comedy a bit sad but not to the point where he would quit earth. Even in the case he made himself suffer. Hope it's just words so far.
Yeah, I've had several bus drivers go by the drive-through so I can get breakfast and let me fiddle the radio on behalf of all passengers while also being on the phone the whole time.
He is also on the run from some major legal issues here is Australia so it wouldn't surprise me at all. I just hope that the people that know his whereabouts can help him, however poor his actions he needs all the mental help he can get.
"But, as the events of this week unfolded and I prepared to publish the proof of access to the earliest keys, I broke. I do not have the courage. I cannot."

This guys is so full of crap its amusing
Visualization of Sorting Algorithms
Why is the FAQ not linked within the Guidelines page (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)? To me, that is a guideline... you wouldn't look at the FAQ before posting something.
Good time to be Bolivian (I am not, just saying)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium#Production
I have my photos on Google and have easy access.

More importantly for me, no matter what happens to my devices I will have some form of backup. This is miles better than the default for people even 5 years ago. You have to try really hard to lose data now! Well, so long as you're not picky about the file size....

Granted Google has the keys to my kingdom. I have things like Backblaze but...
Yeah I had the exact same issue with syncing externally purchased music whilst using apple music, I honestly could not believe apple has delivered software that behaves in such a user hostile manner. It hurts their reputation and convinced me to give up on some music.
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Yeah, agreed. I fail to see how creating a crypto signature requires courage.
I just saw his BBC interview http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36213580 and his body language (for whatever this is worth) is worse than most politicians. Rhythm, eyes.
Another way Google Photos is transparent is the app will actually let you know that many of the photos on your phone have been backed up to Photos. The app will ask if you would like those backed up photos to be removed from your phone. (And it'll ask you every time since it doesn't assume that if you said "yes" once then you mean "yes" every time.) So, there's no question about where your photos went when you can't find them.
Possibly, but if the per pupil cost is between $6500-19800 (Utah and New York, respectively) would this amount of money free at least one parent to fully educate their children? If that were true, wouldn't it seem to follow that more people would do it?

Public education must be - or at least have the appearance of being - a good deal economically.
I don't know if it's really that rare, though. From where I sit Maciej is playing the fox/anansi/trickster character to a tee, with a healthy dose of ha ha only serious (http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/H/ha-ha-only-serious.ht...). Whether it's a character he's pretending to be or just his natural communication style is for him to say, but dude-who-wanders-in-to-fuck-up-your-ego-with-practical-jokes is a pretty well-established archetype that predates "troll".
> friends sharing music, which has always been the essence of how my music collection was built (pre-digital)

I remember how excited I used to be when friends and I would drive to an out-of-town show and stay with other friends who had big record collections. You always brought a box of fresh blank tapes; and that's the same thing they'd do when they came over your house.
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"Your skepticism prevented me from providing evidence to allay those concerns".
which makes now the perfect time to make the Air the middle tier product and the rename the Macbook the Macbook Mini

leave a full speed i processor in the Air, and let the Mini use the m processors.
The note is terribly sad. I hope he has people around him to support him.
I hope the actual Satoshi is alive somewhere, and just for fun moves a different original coin, as if to say "I am alive, and Wright is not me".
> “But… if we happen to run into her on the street, we’re gonna be asking her some questions without you present.”

Doesn't sound particularly polite. Sounds borderline threatening.

"You should pay us protection money. If you don't, you might wish you had." isn't far removed from the above.
Apple paid $46 billion in just income taxes over the last three fiscal years. The majority of that was likely in the US market, where they're more heavily taxed and have a very large market share.

I don't know where you live, but if it's in the US, then you're wrong: they did in fact help pay for food stamps and public housing.

Last fiscal year, Apple generated $72.5 billion in income before income taxes, and paid $19.1 billion in income taxes ($53.3b in net income). That's a 26.3% rate. That rate is higher than corporations pay in almost any other developed nation (Europe typically has the lowest corporate income tax rates for example), and that's after they go out of their way to try to avoid paying taxes. That $19 billion in taxes pays for a lot of welfare state benefits.
Nine-Year-Old can read with her eyes covered by three blindfolds
When you set the location in Google it customizes the cookie with a named field that is a capital L I believe. That field is encoded or encrypted and I could never figure it out so I just constructed a rainbow table by using phantomjs to set a location and scrape the cookie out, pairing the known location value with the encrypted value so that we could customize "the location of the search".
Correct title is: Forget Boeing, Microsoft’s Tax Break Costs $776 Million
It's... a misleading statement. Usually technically incorrect. Possibly technically correct in this instance. But philosophically true for the purposes of the article.

WAVs support sampling rates up to 192khz, whereas mp3 only supports up to 48khz. However, you're unlikely to come across anything higher than 48khz anyway unless you specifically look for it, or record it yourself (as the author did).

Sampling rate has (basically) no effect on audio quality beyond the highest frequency the file can contain - you can drop the sampling rate right the way down to 8khz and it'll just sound a bit muffled but otherwise fine. The primary reason to prefer WAV files over MP3 is that encoding something to MP3 irreversibly mangles it, and the author would be justified in being extremely pissed off that Apple decided to unilaterally do this and delete the originals. It would be like deleting someone's RAW photos and providing Facebook-sized jpegs as replacement, or deleting their home movies and offering back gifs of them. Apple have committed a cardinal sin here, the seriousness of which can't really be overstated.
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Even the paper itself acknowledges the weaknesses of the sample. It's much easier to make "based on consistent responses in our sample, humans generally behave in a certain way" generalisations from a small, unrepresentative sample than to conclude "this cohort of humans we've unrepresentatively sampled generally behaves differently from that cohort of humans we've unrepresentatively sampled"

Consider the hypothesis that (for the sake of simplicity) half of conservatives support conservative candidates because they're "susceptible to bullshit" and half of conservatives support them because they're hardworking professionals who believe those candidates' brand of fiscal conservatism is most aligned with their rational self interest in not being taxed too highly.

Which of these two categories of Trump and Cruz supporters would be underrepresented on AMT, a place for underemployed people to find menial work?
A google for sites still possibly using webobjects: https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...
Did you mean Recursion?
Wow. What a ride that was. The BBC has some explaining to do, given how so many experts called out very early on that Craig Wright just did not fit the "content signature" of Satoshi Nakamoto.

http://hackingdistributed.com/2015/12/10/how-to-spot-satoshi...
Source: http://www.drcraigwright.net/

Asides the conversation, the whole source code of this website is: <img src="homepage.jpg">

This man is really not caring.

EDIT: site is updated now, with proper html+css coding.
iTunes has readonly access to my music stored on my NAS. This is precisely why.
It is okay because they are good negotiators and make useless product.pay America tax! We have sugar and electronic beep sounds!
Dude's a liar. After everything else he has done this is the simplest step which requires no extra burden on him. He has already claimed to be SN, the only reason not to follow through is because he cannot and could never have. Therefore he is just another pretender to the throne.
It can't be sabotaged by the developers or big mining pools? I keep seeing articles worrying about both.
Basically: "I'm sorry you don't believe me, I am too weak to give actual proof."
He played the media like a fiddle. They should follow up with some investigative reporting on him.