skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "economics" here are interesting. One of the sources attributes the piracy to a "market failure". This is not accurate. As price falls to zero and supply is infinite (piracy) there is nothing to restrain demand. Sure I want all those Tarantino special cuts if they don't cost me anything. Got Tarkovsky in 4K? I'll take that too.

Pirates try to justify their thefts in economic terms but at the end of the day they are no different than someone taking socks from Walmart. They want goods or services that others have worked to produce without compensating them for their work.

Seriously, just own it dude. I stole this movie because I wanted it and I could. The Hateful Eight 4K is tearing down the academic pay wall to bring knowledge to the masses. It's a free movie and Cheetos.
I really don't think an iterative approach is right when you're talking about exterminating a species. I'm worried about collateral damage. You don't want your virus jumping species, for instance.
Safari is my favorite on the Mac since it's quite lean (memory wise, CPU wise and energy consumption wise) and responsive. But I miss extensions from Firefox and don't use Safari if I have to work with several tabs and windows. There are several little things that make using Firefox much better for my experience.

Firefox is my favorite browser overall (especially on other OSes), considering its smaller memory footprint and lack of sluggishness with tons of tabs (compared to Chrome) and the fact that it's from Mozilla, a company I hugely respect and admire (even with some of the missteps that have happened in some aspects in the past few years).
My partner is flying out to Sri Lanka on Friday for a 3 week solo tour around the country. Any places she should steer clear of? Any other tips you have would also be much appreciated.

My email is in my profile if you want to chat off thread.
On Nodevember
I don't disagree with anything you've said... but... Since they already liked the post, I'm not picking random people on Facebook, I'm asking them to repeat what they just did. I think it comes to them just like a friend request.
Is there a plan to make the server code free software and publicly available? It would help avoid this situation in the future:

> As part of the agreement, we have received the INN spool with all the articles but none of the code that drives the site.
it looks cools, and may be it can used in google maps to visualization the data
And a YIFY 1080p release is less than a 4.5GB DVD, why did we need a different disc format for regular Blu-Ray?

A VCD release fits on a 700MB CD, why did we need a different disc format for DVD?

You can make video files come out any size you like - even 1 MB - if you're willing to make the tradeoffs (on both quality and time-to-encode dimensions). There's also a limited amount of hardware you can put into a set-top player while keeping a consumer-friendly price point.
TeX/LaTeX
If you want to read more about it, David Kahneman talks about the cake experiment in 'Thinking fast and slow'. His findings can be summarized as Ego depletion.
If you want to read more about it, Michael Kahneman talks about the cake experiment in 'Thinking fast and slow'. His findings can be summarized as Ego depletion.
i love lots of bits of snow crash, but i do not like the book as a whole. i did not feel like the (admittedly excellent) ideas and snippets were stitched into a coherent whole in a particularly satisfying way.

on the other hand, "diamond age" is truly a masterpiece, and i strongly recommend that one to any of stephenson's fans. it's the book of his i'd rate the highest, though my favourite is "cryptonomicon" just because that's comfort reading.
Quill definitely has users that are on React (and Angular, Ember, etc). In general you will want a React Component that is essentially a wrapper around Quill so they stay out of each other's way. You should make sure to understand React's component lifecycle and follow their best practices on working with third party libraries that modify the DOM.
Well yeah but very few sites have 4096 bit keys in my experience, it's mostly misinformed hackers thinking "more bits, more good". And most likely you'll be running your own endpoint for the ESP, so you can control the key length.
The article links to the leak, where there are 4K screenshots of the leaked (DCP) version and the Blu-ray version, and the leaked version looks much nicer. :)
To clarify for all the other non HD-video nerds, this seems to be regarding DCP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Cinema_Package not HDCP:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content... (which is already broken, and was itself the industry response to the breaking of DVD CSS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Scramble_System).

The use of DCP seems to be limited to very high resolution releases. HDCP is still what current era consumer hardware uses, and it's totally wide open.

As always with DRM, it's defective by design. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defective_by_Design

If you can view it, you can copy it... it's just a matter of time, motivation, and desired quality.
How exactly is £10-15000 cheap in developing countries?
The main US equivalent was the RCA 45 RPM record changer. The same mechanism came in many different cases, but the players all look similar.

This unit introduced the RCA phono jack, which, unfortunately, is still around.

[1] http://phonojack.com/RCA%20Victor%20Collection.htm
> Some obvious note about how client-side Javascript is a lost cause, in case anybody's tempted

Relevant (from 2011): https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/about-us/newsroom-and-events/b...
And every now and then you would come across someone describing the exact problem you ran into ... and the message trail would end with the OP saying "Nevermind, fixed it". Without sharing how!
> It is a private choice to decide to use those DNS servers, but such a large percentage of the public uses them that this would no doubt impact nearly all ad networks and websites.

Those ad networks might even die off completely! And that'd just be terrible, really; however would people get by without being advertised at?

(Ideally you'd want the ad domains to not resolve at all, though, rather than resolving to localhost.)

I don't see how someone adjusting a service that they completely own and control to provide a more useful service would fall anywhere near a "line". That line is entirely drawn by the owners and operators of the service, and people can always choose to use a different service if they don't like that.

(That said, ad networks have sadly gotten sophisticated enough that DNS blacklists alone won't suffice, and could potentially break sites.)
China firm enters space tourism race
The whole series on economics is pretty good reading:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains - this seems to include some other stuff (which is doubtless interesting as well) but you can skip around to find the economics articles.
Though you're used to Firebug and find it convenient, it might be worth looking at something else once in a while to see what else is out there (especially if you're not using addons on top of Firebug to enhance it). Perhaps you could have a look at Firefox Developer Edition and try it. [1]

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/Firefox/Developer_Edition
Well, my point more was apps/sites that go sideways will eat as much RAM as they're allowed to. The 20 GB case was only special in that the leak rate was much higher than most. On a smaller scale, whenever my laptop fan kicked on, I knew I left a Travis tab open in the background somewhere. That was the CPU going into an aggressive GC loop due to the relatively huge amount of memory being used (2 - 4 GB).

But my original point is really that dismissing gross memory usage by saying you can buy more RAM for cheap is no longer accurate. In many cases, your machine's configuration is unchangeable. Getting an extra 2 GB RAM isn't $30, it's the cost of a brand new device. In other cases, where you might have configurable hardware, you often have to buy the largest capacity chip available and the economics get skewed. For SODIMMS, going 8 GB -> 16 GB is reasonably cheap, 16 GB -> 32 GB is fairly expensive.

I'd argue having to do a hardware upgrade for a web app in the first place is a bit silly. There's often very little reason for these apps to be so large in the first place.
The price isn't "zero" - it's a low-likelihood/high-impact risk of being sued for copyright infringement/having your internet shut off for "strikes"/moral guilt/etc.
There's some good pointers to the election processes of a few different regiments (North and South) here: http://civilwartalk.com/threads/question-about-election-of-o...
it like the carto,but it is used canvas in browser
> Pirates try to justify their thefts in economic terms but at the end of the day they are no different than someone taking socks from Walmart.

I agree that people just want free stuff, but stealing a physical object deprives someone of that object.

Copying media is strictly a violation of a business model. There is minimal (if any) marginal cost to the owner. Better analogies include sneaking into a (not full) movie, hopping a turnstile, or not putting money into the meter (again, when other spaces are available).
You could still sell the set-top player (which aren't really at a "low" price point) with H.265 as the codec on the current-gen Blu-Ray disc - reducing manufacturing costs.
Oh absolutely [1]. But the HTTP/2 endgame is likely to re-define it in terms of a protocol over QUIC, a situation the QUIC folks are eagerly anticipating [2]. This is no surprise considering both originated at Google.

QUIC is a secure transport protocol (subsuming most of the features of TCP and TLS) that runs on top of UDP (because they wanted to craft a 'better' TCP, and the only other not-blocked-by-default transport protocol is UDP).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9548138

[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hamilton-early-deployment-...
I don't say this with a basis in evidence, only how my brain feels after attention/focus overload. It could very well be something else. The feeling is analogous to using up all the ATP in your muscles.
It seems like it would be a really good idea if they also displayed a line for a baseline version of Firefox, holding the version constant so you can see how the webpages have changed.
I stumbled upon this example today of a group who just "used stripe":

https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/51h32v/question_abo...

I'm entirely confident someone in that company felt PCI was a non-issue because they were to "use stripe". It's certainly not a safe deployment however.
Interesting. I just talked to a friend of mine who is actually a lawyer. He told that in his firm of 300 everybody is a partner and nobody has a boss.

Instead they periodically elect a body of 20 (or so) partner to deal with compensation, bad partners, sets policies, etc, etc.

My buddy says that all the partner are fairly self-driven grown ups, and usually do the right thing. Rarely is there any action needs to be taken by that elected body.

They do have a "CEO" in name to represent the firm to the outside, but with no other powers otherwise. And obviously you need some HR department.

Immediately I wondered whether one could run a software company like that.

Seems that GitHub drove it a little too far on the no-structure route. I wonder if they could have done what this firm does.
I wonder how much more happens only after you say "fuck it I'm doing this thing that we've desperately needed to do regardless of manager approval or sanctioned time."

When the whole dev team is in on it it's actually not too hard to bake in extra time for the unseen things by just everyone taking longer than they would if they were doing purely what the managers wanted. (Though ideally by doing some of the unseen things the total time for future work will become less than it would have because you don't drown yourself in tech debt by trying to do the PM's MVP only every time... It's nice to have a PM who understands that tradeoff.)
The point of DRM is to make that time, motivation, and quality equation not make sense. Every day that a new videogame stays off Piratebay is an extra day of full revenue.

I'm not defending DRM, but it's important to know one's enemy.
There are two horrible flaws with Adobe products

1) the undo buffer only undoes actions against the media. The application UI has just as much or more state in it. I need undo to also work against settings and UI placement.

2) they expose way too much. The feature set that is visible isn't tuned to the needs of most users. Almost everyone needs to constantly dig through menus. The UI should be task specific and configurable on a per project basis.
Employers make employees pay for them often enough that many states have laws prohibiting it

> Q: Can I make an applicant/employee pay for the costs involved in drug testing?

A: There are certain states that specifically address this issue, and employers should familiarize themselves with their state requirements. For example, employers in New Jersey cannot make a candidate pay for his/her drug testing (or medical or other evaluations), unless the position they are applying for is that of a security guard.

http://www.sbsofsa.com/Articles/Drug_Testing_FAQs.html
I know. I said I don't want -more- of that.

Every single member of the team having to keep up with every single other person is unnecessary and impossible past a certain number of people. Certain things don't scale well.
Law firms are very different in how they generate revenue and operate than every other company. There is no basis for comparison.
Around a decade ago I consulted for a company, funded by In-Q-Tel (because the CEO used to work there), whose entire product was essentially a blog to tell your life story before you died and leave it behind for your family.

Clearly more CIA Evil.
Both OpenJump & QGIS ostensibly cover this use case but not in a way that promotes a smooth REPL-like workflow.

So this could be quite useful for PostGIS developers; For instance, often i just need to know how "rough" is the approximate bounding box drawn by PostGIS; a visual comparison with the region's actual borders is often the best and most efficient way to learn this.
An Amazon employee less than #10 does a seminar about SDE careers at Amazon where he/she brags about how Amazon fired all their early engineers because "they weren't good enough." Yeah the people who got Amazon off the ground weren't good enough. Then he/she talks about how if you want to be promoted you better start sucking up to the people deciding your fate in "smoke filled rooms" because you're wrong if you think it has anything to do with your work. This is supposed to be a seminar on how to get promoted at Amazon. It is truly vile and goes to the core of Amazon's culture. Smart people are only there to be exploited.

So I read this article interested to see how long engineer #1 lasted: 5 years.
With a brilliant performance by Ian McKellen!
There's a difference though. DRM music files are sold directly to consumers. These consumers have to be able to decrypt the files on their own computers / devices which makes DRM useless.

The movie files in this case are not meant for consumers. They're only decrypted on specialised equipment not accessible to the general public. If you manage to get your hands on a DCP file there's nothing you can do to decrypt it without access to the specific projector system it was intended for (unless someone screwed up somewhere of course)
Okay, looking at his publications, a slightly more charitable view is that we have a man who has produced some useful science related to the mechanics and neurobiology of perception, and related selective pressures. But he also has a penchant for imbibing in speculative, philosophical extrapolation. Again, it all comes down to playing word games. His science is more concrete; the more abstract theorizing (i.e. the TED Talk-level stuff) rely on the nuance of language and surreptitiously redefining the context of the discussion.
The use of DCP seems to be limited to very high resolution releases.

The DCP is just a digital print (what movie theaters play for digital releases instead of the reels of film that go with analog releases). It's not really about resolution per se, it's just a term for the whole package that the theater gets.
Teardown: Same Product, Fifty Years Apart
The Ford Transit is available with an engine that meets California standards, so it could be made emissions-compliant.

Crashworthyness, though... There's not much crush depth in that thing. The driver is up front. Did they install ABS?
Why I Don't Like Jupyter (FKA IPython Notebook)
This is a really good point, and I feel like the two issues are intertwined. I think HPKP being heavily adopted as it's spec'ed now makes it even harder for third parties trying to do the Right Thing, and their customers from taking advantage of it.

Most of the problems I've seen with pushing HTTPS and the vulnerable CA problem forward really do break down at the "third party provider" boundary, which is a little surprising, because it's an amazingly common situation now, and has been for a while.
> They don't, they differ widely. Some go much further than simply DNS validation.

You're missing my point. You're acting like adding yet another DNS query equals some massive increase in complexity. However, all certificate issuance requires DNS queries. I'm quite aware of other validation steps (like for OV and EV). These steps are performed on top of the domain validation steps I mentioned. I have never argued that those are the only steps.
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Containers (not Docker per se but descendants of it and competitors). Driverless vehicles
If the available laptops don't support enough ram, then the consumer has spoken, and what they said was that they don't want more ram or 1000 tabs open on their laptop.

Personally I wouldn't buy a laptop that is incapable of supporting the amount of ram that I need for my "work pattern".
I can suggest a few for tab management:

Tab Mix Plus [1]

TooManyTabs [2]

Tree Style Tab [3]

Use one or more of these with the Session Manager [4] extension and life becomes a lot easier with several hundreds of tabs. I highly recommend looking at the configuration options provided by each of these extensions and adapting them to how you'd like them to behave. Some of these are also developed with compatibility with the other extensions in mind.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/tab-mix-plus/

[2]: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/toomanytabs-saves-y...

[3]: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/

[4]: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/session-manager/
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jul/08/is-jazz-enteri...
TCP/IP/Ethernet
Probably similar to a software consulting firm, but yeah different than a software product/service company.
Excel Messenger:Messaging app where the server and clients are excel sheets
Yes, but it is so annoying and confusing that these symbols are not printed on the actual keyboard. Looking at the keyboard doesn't help much when I try to press a shortcut I just saw in the menu.
Yeah, that was my first mind too. Nobody, bar few magnates, in developing world buys new cars. You can get a used truck for few thousand or less bucks there. Nice idea, but I really doubt we will see many of these trucks used for its intended purpose.
Try the video series Quantum Computing for the Determined [1]

My simulator, Quirk [2], is a bit easier to experiment with than IBM's. But it still assumes you know the basics.

1: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1826E60FD05B44E4

2: http://algorithmicassertions.com/quirk
I'll check that out, thanks! I have an entry level DSLR (18MP) so I was hesitant to Google Photos due to the compression, but the features look great. I didn't realize the machine vision for search and tagging was all included in the price/free for compressed pictures It's probably cheaper to pay for Google Drive space than pay for Lightroom, so it's probably worth it.

One followup question, since the browser is cloud-based, have you experienced significant latency viewing your photos? For example, when I use the Dropbox webapp it takes a couple to load thumbnail previews for a folder of 200ish photos while Finder on my Mac does it basically instantaneously.
The Unexpected Outcomes of Code Review
The real cost hits over years of use. These things will effectively last forever, as each part can be replaced as needed. There is plenty of money in developing countries, just poorly distributed. You can easily see how the Ox would pay for itself in reducing transport costs to/from remoter communities.

Also, the price will fall, these trucks will be sold second, third, tenth hand... Same as with "expensive" mobile phones in years past.
UEFI

NaCl crypto / libsodium

HTTP/2+ over QUIC over UDP

wasm
As a " kit car" I suspect you can legally register and drive it. They're not held to the same standards as a production vehicle.
If you find this article interesting, Coursera's "Competitive Strategy" [1] is a pretty good introduction on the topic of game theory and how it can be used as a decision-making framework for business, I've found.

As a case study, I recommend watching this episode of "Golden Balls" [2], which shows how a player can manipulate a game outcome and defeat the natural Nash equilibria. This is a classic IMO.

[1] https://www.coursera.org/learn/competitivestrategy

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0qjK3TWZE8
I would absolutely prefer to not have to individually tag photos with high-level tags, but my limited search of desktop programs didn't surface any that were capable of machine vision to do it for me. I should have considered cloud solutions too, thanks for the suggestion!
It took the music industry a long time.
Looks like a great idea. Unfortunately, in most of the developed world, it does not look like it would not pass the occupant safety regulations.
That's not how it works. Those 525 lines include the beam moving from the bottom right of the screen back to the top left to start to display the next frame (vertical blanking). There are only around 480 lines visible on the screen. The non-image lines is where things like teletext would be transmitted.
Normally those kind of decisions are optimized by free market competition. It doesn't seem to have kicked-in in this case, probably due to the elephants in the room (piracy and streaming) having zero capex cost.
Thanks for the recommendations! Did you mean something specific when you referred to "Bostock's notes", or did you just mean his various blog posts and papers?
On the other hand, all the inner refactorings happening to Firefox may threaten the addon ecosystem by constraining them Chrome-like. There's no telling if there'll be a vimperator for firefox 50, 55, 60. The way vi emulator addons work for Chrome, it might be a potential travesty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overscan
That's very interesting way of running a company. Is everyone in the company a partner, including the secretary, researchers, interns etc? How are these folks "managed"?

By the way, I am not asking from cynical perspective. I run a project team, and I am working through on how much autonomy to give the team members.
The Mac solution is that nobody installs an OS X upgrade until it's at the .1 release because everyone knows the .0 release breaks everything. You only install a beta if you're suicidal.
This seems a reasonable thread to ask this: I found a weird dns server, conspiracy theory level. If you grok dns and would indulge me, send me an email :)