skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have family members who are writers. By association, we know many writers. They are in a dilemma. From talking to them, I think they agree, in principle, that books ought to be "distributed, [...], spread abroad, given to all, given cheaply, given at cost price, given for nothing." They are book-lovers in essence.

In reality, most writers can hardly make a living from writing. Their book deals are essentially decided by if the book will sell. For published writers, the biggest factor in publishers' minds is the selling history of her/his previous books. So writers are trying all the means to boost the sale of their books. As far as I know, most writers hate book tours, public readings, etc. They will, however, fly 10 hours to another city, give two readings, each of which may have only 10 people show up, so as to sell several copy of their books, as long as the publishers can cover the travel costs. Most writers are poor and can't afford the travels at their own expense.

So writers really want people to buy their books, not to become rich, simply as a way to support, so that they can afford to write. Writer friends buy each other's books once they are published, as a means to support, both in spirit and in finance. I remember once my family member gave a reading to promote her newly published book. After the reading, a writer friend came to say bye to us, empty-handed. She didn't say anything, but with a very apologetically expression. We know she was having a hard time financially. That expression really hurts.

The financial burden hits hard when writers have family and children. The majority of writers hate teaching, as far as I know. Whenever there is an opening position in a college's writing program, there would be hundreds of applications, including some well-known writers, even although they are aware that teaching will take a big part of their time, their energy from them to work on their own novels, their own books. It seems the cost of context switch between teaching and writing are very high for most writers. A well-known writer, whom I believe most educated people should at least have heard of, can't work on his own books at all when he is teaching. So he has to negotiate with the college to teach only one semester per year, so he can write in the other semester without teaching obligations. I wish his books have higher sale number, so that he can get higher book deals. Thus he doesn't have to teach.
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Is this a really great example of Machine Learning? It seems most of the work could have been done with common data stores and a bit of coding.
AMD Announces Radeon Pro WX 7100 GPU Focused on Professional VR Film Editing
Nice to see another PDX company get funded, quite a big seed as well!

Curious if you guys use proprietary graphing libraries or wrap something like d3 in custom skins.
All the ergo adjustments in the world won't help you if you sit in one position all day long with one small set of muscles engaged while the rest are disengaged and slowly atrophying.

The best solution is touched on in the article, but it can't be overstated that actual exercise is the best preventative.
Blockchain Technology: Possibilities for the U.S. Postal Service [pdf]
As a kid (90's) we had a big metal slide too. It was placed at the top of a hill and in the winter we would pack snow at the base of the slide to connect it with the hill. The hill would then get turned to ice from all of us kids repeatedly packing the snow down. It was great, the slide was maybe 12 feet tall but the hill added another 20 feet or so.

I still have nieces that go to the same school and that whole area has been re-graded and turned into a parking lot. I suppose it is a good lesson in the impermanence of things.
Isn't it breach of contract when you copy tv show, when it clearly states that copying of that show is prohibited? When you buy that dvd, book or whatever it is, you agree to the 'terms' which usually say - copy in any form shape or size prohibited.
Nail on the head.
Yes, it would qualify. While having additional devices does increase security (harder to break into both the laptop and a phone, or laptop and smartcard/yubikey/RSA SecurID token) its not entirely necessary.

Many physical security systems utilize multiple factors of authentication for access that are tied into a single reader. They often have a badge reader (something you have) and a fingerprint/eye scanner (something you are) or a PIN pad/digital combo dial (something you know) all built into the same device stuck on the wall. Sometimes they'll use separate systems for this, but the combo units are very common.
The morons at Huffingtonpost "US edition", I suppose.
This looks interesting. Would love to try it out..requested an invite.
It's fine that there are flaws with using SMS, but the alternatives -- proprietary apps, proprietary dongles -- aren't any better. They also just create more parties you have to trust.

And if it comes down to using public/private keys, there's no reason an open source SMS app couldn't authenticate encrypted text messages or something.

If SMS in the clear is bad (and it probably is), then whatever is okay needs to be broadly accessible, open, and usable.
Wizkid Collaborates with Alicia Keys
How is downloading not creating a copy? There was one file before you downloaded it, now there are two.
How Do We See Art: An Eye-Tracker Study (2011)
I have almost exactly zero expertise in this area. I have a gut reaction to your question, but there's no point in my sharing it.

But if I were an expert, I suspect that I still wouldn't offer an opinion after hearing only one side of the story.
The editorial staff at the Huffington post.
That would be the term self-censorship, yes.
But this is not a dispute, at least not yet. It is just a one-sided request. They can just talk to their lawyer, ignore it, and wait to see if the VC files a suit. Short of that, there is no obligation to even reply. So why go into potentially dangerous legal territory at all, when you are perfectly in your rights to just discuss it with your lawyers, but then ignore it?
Dune: Safe User-Level Access to Privileged CPU Features [pdf]
> Everyone should be using the command line if that argument were true.

Well, yes — they should. Would you rather communicate with speech or by pointing and grunting?

We do need better languages for conversing with our computers, but we can't get rid of the need for language.
Images are everywhere, and images are reality (fuck off, René Magritte).

Also, young people don't live in some sort of post-technical isolation. When they go to school, they will probably see the photography students walking around with cameras. And kids still burn music CD's for each other. Because it's cute and sentimental, and it feels a lot better than texting someone a link to a playlist.
Ah, so that's how we end up in a cyberpunk future. It is almost 2020...
Does anyone have an idea why, according to the author, a mouse being wireless is so essential?
It's about as legal as buying a stolen TV.
Because people will eventually start to get it for the lower price. The global economy isn't some far off concept, it's already here, we just haven't adjusted our economic model to fit with that fact yet. Digital goods aren't like physical goods where you need to charge more because of local pricing, we've just arbitrarily made it that way. Eventually it will even out.
> but you are not allowed to spend that time you had for viewing it to make a copy of it and show it to some other people that did not pay the original author

I clearly said that making an unlicensed copy and distributing it infringes copyright so we agree.

> You only have the right to view something if someone who created that wants you to view it.

Here we disagree, copyright does not prevent many things like borrowing a friends book or downloading a movie.

Do you have any sources where someone was prosecuted for unlicensed viewing or downloading - this would substantiate your argument.

Uploading and sharing is what copyright prevents, not downloading.

> how is that not a theft?

It is not theft, theft means depriving someone of something actual - copyright infringement is against the law but no-one is charged with theft for it.

Damages are awarded against uploaders but potential income and stolen money are not equivalent.

Copyright is a time limited monopoly, possesion is not - trying to conflate copying with theft does not further the discussion, it only muddies the discourse.
I watched my father live with the pain caused by ankylosing spondylitis [0] for decades before he died. I myself live with the pain of psoriatic arthritis[1], and occasional uveitis [2], both related conditions I knew I was genetically predisposed to (HLA-B27 [3]).

It isn't easy. The pharmacological therapies I know would be most effective are too expensive. And so I have to choose how to avoid suffering from my pain, every day. I choose work, music, my family, antidepressant and anti-anxiety medication, and participating in communities (like this one) where I may find peers.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankylosing_spondylitis
[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psoriatic_arthritis
[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterior_uveitis
[3]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HLA-B27
Flynn (YC S14) founders here. Happy to answer any questions.
Wow, I'd never considered that side of things.

The company I work at recently bumped to 12/12 which is incredible.
Someone should provide some military perspective. They have a bit of documented experience with extreme working conditions and hours and responsibilities.

On one hand in the reserves we were butts in seats about 1/10th the time of active duty soldiers so you'd theorize we did 1/10th the training of active soldiers, but I can assure you by the time you're done with semi-annual weapon cleaning, range qual time, aids briefing and test (do they still do that?), semi-annual review of DD214 and SGLI beneficiaries, PMCS the vehicles every saturday morning, group PT every sunday afternoon, once a year holiday party and once a year summer picnic, NBC training and mask cleaning, semiannual company wide PT tests, by the time you're done with all that we didn't really train in our MOS at all. Lower enlisted don't go to annual training they go to various classes. Somehow I never went to AT with my unit, somewhat unusual, but "most people" only go once or twice at most anyway. At any rate my point is if the BS load is a fixed amount of time, dropping the percentage of time you spend can have an extremely dramatic effect on the ratio of work to BS. I will admit that unlike a standard American 60 hr/wk workplace, when we worked, we actually worked, not goofed off while present. I would theorize that office cooler BS talk is a very fixed cost of not working remotely, people are going to goof off a minimum of 10 hours per week no matter how many hours of butt in seat you force on them.

Another thing to keep in mind is the military has an enormous amount of experience with having young people get no sleep or rest and therefore require two months to accomplish about two weeks of learning, its called basic training. If you're attending one of the more cerebral post-basic training schools they force you to spend less than 40 hrs/wk in classroom thinking. And after you graduate aside from deployment / emergency / wartime events you spend less than 40 hrs/wk in office actually working. I can assure you the army does not care about your happiness or long term health, they simply have billions of human-hours of experience that you can get butts in seats any arbitrary number of hours up to near 168 hours per week, but you can only get working brains in seats maybe 30 to 40 hours per week and maximum total brain productivity regardless of IQ is around 30 hrs/wk. And this applies from the lowliest E1 doing accounting audits and sysadmin duties all the way up to the officers flying fighter planes, so no "I'm special because I'm smart and/or highly trained" BS.
Perhaps glare? They are getting hit pretty hard by that overhead, might have washed out the projector if they were left to reflect off the floor.
What makes you assume this is a USA issue? The company that the author is writing about is headquartered in Germany.
Congrats to the reflect team, great to see the journey from TechStars to seed round.
On Ed Witten and innate talent: a winding digression
I see what you're saying as that thought occurred to me haha. Only thing that kept me from saying what you did is that it sounds very similar to model-driven development. Plus, I bumped into it here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_development_p...

Followed by this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-driven_design

There was a company that I had bookmarked that did enterprise software by defining ontologies that got converted into code or something. I can't find it but this link seems similar. Stuff does have some use in actual applications.

http://www.mkbergman.com/948/ontology-driven-apps-using-gene...
I'm not opposing the subscription model in general. It's just that I don't find the particular implementation appealing. I am currently subscribed to iTunes, iCloud, and several other services.
Why does this give OP the right to violate the author's copyright by posting it to Github?
We do use D3 under the hood.
Thomas Babington Macaulay gave some brilliant speeches on this, back in the first half of the 19th century:
http://homepages.law.asu.edu/~dkarjala/OpposingCopyrightExte...

One takeaway from his words is brutally practical: if access to information (including entertainment) is not cheap and plentiful, people will pirate. All that attempts to prevent piracy (i.e. enforce rent-extracting monopolies)accomplish is encourage it, and create not just sympathy, but public acceptance and encouragement of it.
It's you who is trying to redefine the words to make theft acceptable.
It's true that Americans of European ancestry are not growing taller at the same rate as their European cohorts. This could be partially due to childhood obesity. A diet rich in sugars leads to early puberty and counter-intuitively, decrease in overall height. "Precocious puberty leads to accelerated growth, accelerated bone maturation and ultimately reduced stature."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15073143
I used an App on my old iPod to BUY and read the first in a series of books.

I then tried to purchase the second volume, only to have the transaction declined because I don't live in North America.

I wrote to Penguin USA to complain about this, pointing out that the book I wished to purchase was freely available on download sites so Why were they refusing to sell it to me?

Their response was that I should find a US book store online, place an order for a physical copy and then either wait around 4 weeks for it to be delivered via surface mail or pay a premium price (more than the cost of the book) to have it delivered by airmail.

The fact that I actually specifically wanted an electronic copy for its convenience and immediacy was just ignored.

A downloaded copy does not deprive anyone of the original possession. The only issue in these cases is the legitimate right to be recompensed for that copy. However, if the owner refuses to exercise that right, how can downloading a copy still be considered "theft"?
I'm guessing it depends on the company... at my last place (small startup so makes sense) I was expected to be productive the first week and actually got in trouble for looking at non-work stuff every now and then :p

Meanwhile some of my friends at large companies "train" for weeks. Pretty interesting difference.
In that case, yes, I think icons should be "iconic" when possible. At this point, the "most used" version of basically every app is unsurprisingly an app. The phone app is used more than landline phones (or dumb cell phones). The camera app is used more than dedicated cameras. Word processors are probably used more than paper and pen.

So you either use something "iconic", or every icon is just a small screenshot, or I guess you make something up that is meaningless.
Your identity may be intangible, but you can certainly be deprived of its proper use by someone successfully impersonating you. So unlike digital piracy (for want of a better term) something is taken from you in a manner that precludes your own use of it.

More to the point though, labelling the act of downloading the latest film as theft is not conductive to a discussion about the moral justification of piracy, because you are using loaded language to condemn it even before presenting an argument. That is, there appears to be no strong consensus that piracy falls under what is commonly referred to as theft.

(I am under the impression that the term digital piracy did stick regardless of one's position in that debate.)
How to escape lock-in with a multi-cloud stack
With the four-day-weeks in the summer, it's really ~32 days (albeit with some restrictions on when you take them). They also mention "a few personal days" -- so call it 35 total? I've seen few places offer more than that...
Some part of me thinks, they changed everything to a shade of grey so that when they inject rainbow colors into icons they stand out more. I also think new icons are too abstract and make no sense whatsoever, I miss the Photos icon every single time I try to open the app. It's all about rainbows.
SD-WAN Explained with an infographic
Seems like the UI borrows super heavily from Invision.
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IIRC, Authy uses this SMS challenge to authenticate users to allow you to download the database of secrets. This db is encrypted by a passphrase which never leaves the device. So, Authy is using SMS as one part of a multi-auth system to get to the final unencrypted data.

That said, anyone with a SIM card able to get messages for your phone number can download the encrypted database and attempt offline passphrase recovery. It might take a while to brute force, they seem to use a lot of hashing rounds as it takes a couple of seconds to verify the passphrase on a 2014 Moto X.
The pricing seems kind of high for a "startup" plan. I know there's community support, but anyway.
You are missing the point of mimicking real world objects. It doesn't matter that some people may never have seen an actual contact book. Nobody has seen a real time machine either. But you can imagine one in your mind and how it might work. This is helpful. Donald Norman's POET book explains that people make mental models of your program in any case. If you aid creation of that mental model then your program will become more intuitive and be less intimidating.

Even 'digital natives' live in the physical world. We start learning how it works before we ever touch a computer, and even the most dedicated nerd spends more time interacting with physical objects than with digital interfaces. It doesn't take additional learning to know that an object casting a shadow on another is in front of that other, for example. Failing to leverage that existing knowledge is tantamount to shutting down whole swathes of users' brains.

Read more:
http://blog.tobiasandtobias.com/post/37179466962/in-defense-...
> Lithium is an element, not just a medication.

It doesn't matter if you call it an element or a medication, it has non-negligible medical effects and side effects. If it had no relevant effects, we wouldn't be discussing it here.

> The ones who consume slightly more kill themselves significantly less, with no side effects.

"No side effects" is an impossible claim to make. The studies we do have show a correlation between lithium in the water supply and suicidal frequency in the population. The side effects have not been studied.

For some hard evidence: Lithium in drinking water is correlated with changes of thyroid function: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3114818/

Lithium most certainly does have side effects that are dose- and time-dependent. The side effects may be minimal at low concentrations, but when applied to a population over the course of a lifetime, they would certainly add up. Especially for those who are most susceptible to the negative effects.

It's also not hard to imagine that lithium's suicide rate reduction effects (which are purely correlation at this point, FWIW) are due to it's tendency to mellow people out. The cognitive dulling of even small amounts of lithium orotate in healthy (non-bipolar and non-suicidal) people are palpable. Would you still advocate for lithium in the water if it reduced the average intelligence of the population by, say, 1%? I'm picking hypothetical numbers here, but the reality is that there are certainly downsides to mass-medicating people with small doses of lithium.
In case studies with formal methods, specification languages like Z are used to make the requirements more clear. Such methods have shown to work pretty well with both programmers and laypersons learning it easily. This means a separate methodology or whatever might not be necessary if we just needed a less, ambiguous language. Of which there are many with some having tool support.

Example of one methodology that uses Z in safety-critical field with low defect results:

http://www.sis.pitt.edu/jjoshi/Devsec/CorrectnessByConstruct...
My solution is to use a lap desk. I have what is called an ePad which is going on 6 years old. I should probably replace it.

I limit my desk time to 3 hours a day.
Especially when papers before it have established that at most only a few photons were needed for perception. The very first line is:

"Landmark experiments by Hecht and colleagues in the 1940s established that dark-adapted human subjects are capable of reporting light signals as low as a few photons (~5–7)."

Looking around, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/jphysiol.1979.sp0... is a 1979 paper showing that a toad retina can respond to a single photon.

The claim from this new paper doesn't seem that extraordinary given what's been known for decades.
"We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth.

We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.

Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter. There is no matter here."[1]

When I read comments like yours I can't help missing the early visionaries of the cyberspace.

[1] https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
The performance benefits of rel=noopener
On top of the exercises recommended in the article, I would also suggest "Band Pull-Aparts". These help undo some of the posture issues from working at a desk.

This is a good instructional video on them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd9VoT1BPAY
Congrats on 1.0 - how does Flynn compare to say BOSH (see BOSH.io)?
You are not making a case against skeuomorphism, but against icons in general. We either must resort to using words, or standardized pictograms like road signs.
What kind of profit do i get giving my copy of something to my parents to watch?
The laws you are referring to were basically just Autodesk enforcing a monopoly position, and these laws directly harmed consumers.

The big elephant in the room is that distribution and maybe even production do not require publishers anymore...and so instead of changing to adapt to the market they are out cracking down on supposed pirates.

It takes a lot of ignorance of the business model of publishers to defend their status as on par with artists.
I think the main advantage is the GPU doesn't have to go through the CPU to get data.

i.e. the transaction goes from this: GPU -> CPU -> HDD -> GPU

to this: GPU -> HDD -> GPU
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If you copy something with "coping prohibited" you're also in a breach of agreement, whether you agree with it or not.