skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm with you on this. I need reading glasses for paper books but not for ebooks. Large-print paper editions are rarely available for the books I want to read, but every ebook is large-print and exactly the degree of largeness I want. With a paper book, larger print requires a larger book. With an ebook, a thousand large-print books fit in the space of a single, regular-print trade paperback.

That's not to say that I don't still love books on paper. I'm not going to drop my iPad Pro in the sand beside my beach chair to go play in the surf. Nobody will steal my paperback, the sand won't hurt it, I can see it clearly in bright sunlight, and I can run it however long I feel like reading it without ever thinking about the battery charge. I also like traveling with a lightweight paperback. For the cost of remembering my reading glasses, I can forget any worries about saving battery, toting a charger everywhere, finding places to plug in, theft, fragility, accidentally leaving it or the charger somewhere.... Nice.

I just wish more of the books I wanted to read were available as lightweight paperbacks with comfortable-sized print....
As a counterpoint, there has never been an era where more people have risen to great wealth so quickly as today.

Also, 85% of American millionaires are self-made (not inherited). See the book "The Millionaire Next Door".
They keep going.
This is the data recovery app consumer version that kicked it all off (it has the same engine as the original one): http://macdaddy.io/mac-data-recovery/

You wont find any data recovery software that does a more thorough scan than that, even though it was written in 2004 or so and has been barely modified since. I spent years writing it, in C, so it ended up highly optimized. In forensics mode it scans a drive byte-by-byte, and it assumes each byte is the start of a file of the 100 or so filetypes that it supports, and it maintains that assumption until it is proven to be false as it goes deeper into that file's data. That way it really shouldn't miss anything. It also transparently UUDecodes, unzips, and otherwise decodes data on the fly as to extract file contents under as many conditions as possible. It uses linked lists to maintain its memory of what files are where until it dumps out its buffer as output files, and it uses binary searches and threads to speed up. All in all it's about 1000 lines of code, though I really don't think that anyone would ever be able to read it except for me.

I recently noticed that if you run it over your iTunes Music folder it'll extract and output the media that is contained inside your M4P ("MPEG 4 protected audio") files, and output it as unprotected MP3's. So it effectively strips all of the DRM off of all your media in seconds. Even if you didn't purchase that media (say your friend sent it to you) and couldn't play it before. That was not intentional. You can see that effect in this app: https://itunes.apple.com/app/file-extractor/id1129674765 which is the same codebase, but it is being applied to used space (files) instead of free space.
> Of course it implies that these services must be good enough so that the riches wont look for something else.

There can be only one best heart surgeon. How would you go about deciding who gets the best one, and who gets second best, on down to who gets the bottom of the class?
The C# language specification, you can find it at "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC#\Specifications\1033\CSharp Language Specification.docx"
"Additionally, bids can also be retracted at any time, even if you’re the current winning bidder. To prevent a name from rapidly switching between multiple resolutions, the parties that have existing control of a name have a reasonable period of time to respond to counter bids before a name’s resolution switches."

"Since LBRY names are the equivalent to content storefronts, we believe that LBRY names will hold the most value to rightsholders who produce content associated with a given name."

"As names in demand on LBRY will be more expensive, the names themselves will also serve as a signal of reputation, legitimacy, and quality. If a user searches LBRY for Spider Man and sees one at lbry://spiderman and one at lbry://spiderman_russhaxor, there will be little doubt that the latter is less legitimate."

Yes, this sounds somewhat like DNS. First come, first serve, try to snatch up domains first and then sit on them and try to sell them.

But, that places way too much assumed value in the name. All is takes is a search service to resolve "lbry://asdfaljsfd" to a good copy of Spider Man, and now it no longer matters what LBRY URL looks legit.
Not really. Payday loans provide short term fixes to the desperately poor consumers with no other options, typical APRs of 2000% and above, because default rates are high and admin costs high relative to the loan size.

Revenue based finance offers businesses with attractive gross profit margins the choice of obtaining growth capital without giving up any equity, and has a moderately high APR because the lender shares a fair amount of risk and the repayment terms are very flexible.
From the text: "...it is community itself that has ultimate controls over the catalogue of what is available."

I take that to mean that this isn't really controllable by DMCA. So, they are just giving DMCA lip service.
Right, but did you give a shit about nodevember yesterday?

If I examine their relative contributions to JavaScript it does appear to be metaphorically like the deckhand on the Santa Maria refusing to share the conference stage with Galileo, or "Storm trooper #3" being fed up with Mark Hamill.

But maybe they're people who have specifically contributed to nodevember. I mean, one of them has been on the hansel-minutes podcast.

One of the complainants is from Austin tx, and the others list San Francisco. Which are both pretty far from Nashville.

Anyways, I'm not sure any of that matters, it looks a little like a case of long distance bullying against someone who the conference attendees likely could learn something from, by people from whom, I think they couldn't.

I mean, as professional programmers, we all know a few bright ones who have some aspects of socially awkward. We all know at least one grumpy old man (some of us are him!).

It really seems to me like a case of throwing the baby out with the bath water, but I didn't care about nodevember yesterday and I don't today. I would definitely go to a Crockford talk though.

I disagree with the decision to remove him as a speaker. Privately I'm annoyed, frustrated, angry, worried about things like the authoritarianism of it all. But ultimately, I respect nodevember's freedom to make their conference the way they want it.

We can all move on from this one I think.
The distinction is probably still there but slightly more hidden from view. It's a good optimization, no reason to throw it out.

It would take some prodding around to find out.
If I read it correctly, nobody gets the coins that are bid on something. They just are frozen and can't be used otherwise as long as they are used to bid on a name. Retract your bid and you can use them again for other purposes.
The bar is set where you are forced to do something. If your tits are saggy and you don't want to go topless, then don't, I guess?
I don't think he was implying that we never landed on the moon, just that the NASA manned program's priorities today have a misguided set of priorities. There was a scathing article posted about it last night
Click bait headline which sucks because the issue of who pays legal fees in cases like this an important one.
In the US and probably the rest of the English speaking countries, typically only medical professionals and first responders are required to render aid, but the law does protect "good samaritans" from legal culpability if they do help.
You could be right, a small community might be limiting and controlling, but my basic intuition was to divide the power and protect people from large companies. Up until the age of automation it was not possible to divide concentrated power, because things were too interdependent on each other. If there are ways to live without depending on others, communities of like minded people will surely form to build their "utopias".
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12397513
It seems so easy to include a command line option to specify which PEM file to use but git just won't do it.

Yes I know there are ways around it and config files you can set up, but heck, it's just a command line "use this PEM file". It's not hard.
Though there are many better ideas like semantic search, entity search, Q & A, deep search, etc. Startups could crack some market share from big players. Building better search engine is not the big problem for startups, but from business perspective, It's a marathon race - in terms of scale, investment, making the user switching from google etc. also Google have billions of $$, thousands of researchers working to improve the results, competing them is not easy, hence many stay away from search engine development.
What kind of salary you would offer to these interns?
I get the marketing/publicity angle of this, but there's no way this is cheaper than hiring an actual person. At least for the part of interacting with customers.

> Furthermore, LoweBot is able to assist with inventory monitoring in real-time, which help detect patterns that will able to guide future business decisions.

This sounds interesting. Having an army of robots marching down the aisles and scanning inventory seems useful. Wouldn't be as accurate as a human checking behind a box or finding mislabeled merchandise but would probably be more than an 80/20 solution to the problem.
A DNS system as a penny auction scam! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidding_fee_auction

The Reddit AMA is a hoot. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/50tyub/were_the_nerds...
Intel Claims Current and Future Artificial Intelligence Dominance
1 diff C = 1.8 diff F, so 3.6.
I get a "subscribe or sign in"
On the flipside, I think there is a sort of loophole that some cheap EU airlines use, where if all the passengers board the plane, they can keep you delayed (and boarded) for a few hours with no compensation. I've been stuck outbound from Gatwick, sitting in the plane for 2.5 hours with no food and no compensation, due to illness causing shortage in the flight attendant staff. I believe they knew about the delay before they boarded us.
"made to stick" is a great read for techies because it helps you think about simplifying communication to non techies. It also helps technical founders think about market perceptions about your product. It's a super fast read and well written.
They're into Austrian economics. One posted on the Reddit AMA about being an "anarchist" in the Rothbardian sense. Their GMU professor thought the economics were great!
I have been developing for Windows since the 3.1 days.

Every year is the desktop year of something. Meanwhile I got fed up to keep trying to run GNU/Linux on my laptops.

Even the Asus Netbook I bought with Ubuntu support out of the box had wlan issues that took around 6 months to get sorted out.

People keep complaining, but the desktop market hardly changes.

Now the lower margins hybrid tablets/laptops is flooded with 2GB/32GB eMMC Windows 10 netbooks.
There's one point where it already affects non-technical users: HIPAA-compliance or any form of legal agreement to not disclose information.

It's currently not clear whether it's legal to even run Windows 10 Home/Pro, if you have such obligations, as even the best privacy that Microsoft allows, is still sending something to Microsoft and no one knows what it's sending.

This becomes even more fun when you consider that in order to be HIPAA-compliant, you have to always keep your software up-to-date. That means you have to upgrade from Windows 7/8 to Windows 10 and therefore can't just stick to a previous version to be legally safe.

For bigger health-care institutes, Windows 10 Enterprise might be an option here in order to not risk a lawsuit, but for a simple doctor who'd only need one or two licenses, that's not a viable option either. Maybe we'll see an organization of doctors for buying Windows 10 Enterprise License Volumes together and then sharing the licenses, but if not, they would all have to migrate to OSX or Linux.
Well I live in a country with non-elected attorneys and they become marionettes of the politicians quickly. As long as they do as the regime is saying they will be there and they don't care.
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>lifts (?)

"Spits" (as in "spit-roasted"), or "skewers"
I've never been this aggressive in a HN comment: change the fucking title. This is not a showcase for a YouTube alternative. It's a fucking advertisement for a service that has nothing to do with YouTube-like services. It's AOL keywords with a bidding system - for any site or service. This kind of clickbait bullshit, listing a well-known product like "YouTube" for the sole purpose of gaining more traction, is unacceptable. HN has lately been falling into the same trap that killed Slashdot - falsely labelled posts, providing clickbait views for someone's startup that would never make the front page if the title matched the content of the submission.
It's not been as politically polarized? Let me remind you that in the 1960's (often held up as a golden age of lower inequality and strong unions), we had a multi-million member political terrorist group attacking soft targets on a regular basis. Remember Bombingham? Countering them we had a large armed separatist group.

Nowadays all we have are some internet Hitlerites who make Pepe the Frog memes and watch tentacle porn.

One of the things Picketty pointed out is that with rising inequality, inherited wealth starts dominating the economy...A society of high inequality over a long time can not be a society of "the self made man".

As the contemporary US demonstrates, this is false. We have a higher proportion of self made billionaires than ever before. For example:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2014/10/03/there-a...

Picketty even acknowledges that all the official statistics go against this claim, he just postulates that there are secret inherited fortunes that the statistics don't capture.

In any case, if you really believe inequality rather than poverty is the problem, I invite you to come to India. Way less inequality than the US. Granted, there's a 50% chance you won't have a flush toilet, but that's not a problem if no one else has one either, right?
Ask HN: Would you want to watch YC's Stanford Course together online?
I love YC’s Stanford Course “How to start a startup”.

You can watch it at your own pace on Youtube, but for many of us, the value is in watching things together and discussing what’s being presented. There is tremendous value in the conversations that happen around such classes. The questions asked. The sharing of ideas. The sharing of additional resources.

So I’ve built a little online classroom and I’ll be live streaming YC’s course from Monday til Sunday. There’ll be a live chatroom to accompany the live stream, so you can chime in, discuss the lectures, make new friends (find a potential new cofounder?) etc.

Question: Would you like to join the watch party, and take this class in your pyjamas from the comfort of your home/where ever you are?

No: Why not?

Yes: Sign up here - https://goo.gl/forms/86bilUmhCneUwW6y2
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2004/may/11/theairlinei...
Try a clean browser instance?
ex ter min ate! ex ter min ate!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxD-5z_xHBU
Not to dismiss the seriousness of climate change, but "our grandchildren won't have a planet to live on" is a completely unfounded assertion with no roots in reality. Humans are vastly good at adapting.
Last week I needed an arctangent at work. Looked it up on Wikipedia and let Wolfram Alpha compute the result.

It was partly my fault because I was using Blender instead of a CAD system. Had to rotate something to align it to the base plane for 3D printing. But hey, I'm no engineer and it worked. And all for a door stopper with the company logo.
Conversely, there are -3X affordable apartments for those of us who are employed, but not working in tech making six figures.
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Whenever I read articles like this these days, I just throw my hands in the air and sigh, thinking about how tainted IT has become. Any tech can be weaponized, but the scale of it feels utterly demoralizing to me.

What's the way out? Become less connected? Go back to fixed function hardware? Is there even a way out without shedding layers of abstraction? Is there even a way out at all, or is this our new brave new world?
This has been discussed multiple times in several thread, and no, Europe (i.e. the EU) is not changing any rules retroactively. You're welcome to point out the specific rule they have changed if you feel that I'm wrong.
The submission definitely mentions YouTube and Netflix as services it could replace, as well as bemoaning the centralized nature of many content platforms. I think the title is perfectly accurate.
I don't see how that is unique to Linux. Plenty of people, probably more, have had those same experiences with other operating systems. I can see why someone would like, or even prefer, to tinker with Linux and it would of course be a loss if it didn't exist, but that doesn't mean that Linux developers are the only ones tinkering. So it does seem like that it's primarily an ideological difference in what tinkering means.

Unfortunately the Linux community largely seem to attract and retain people who mainly care about their own freedom to tinker. Every time someone pushes out something broken, users lose thousands of tinkering man hours on trying to make those things work for themselves. As someone who likes to tinker, time is my most valuable commodity and Linux doesn't respect my time.
It will make a difference. The world is the way it is because of what people believe and how they act. The more people that eschew evil the less people that get damaged. That being said, recovery software I'd put at a neutral on the good - evil spectrum. Like guns, the impact is negative only in the wrong hands.
This is a dumb workaround, but you can also add a monthly auto-renewing subscription that's just for testing. It auto-renews every 3 or 5 minutes (I forget which), and expires after 15 minutes.
> turns on in a matter of seconds.

Are you serious? Seconds??? Turning on a TV and waiting seconds is considered acceptable today? My displays start in milliseconds.

> No sync issues for me

Ah, yes, the "not for me" argument.

> as it's all pass through to sound bar.

This is not quite true, as my measurements showed, but if it were strictly true it would be bad, because video takes time to process, and audio would come too early.

But in the 3D configuration the sound bar adds a delay of its own. How do you think the 3D sound works? There's a DSP, with a buffer, and sound is delayed such then when taking in account reflections in the room, etc, you get the impression of 3D sound. To work properly, the delay is on the order of second-order reflections in the room.

But even in the 2D configuration the sound bar adds a delay, as I measured with an oscilloscope. I guess they just turn the DSP program off, but still pass it through all the buffers. This is trivial to hear without an oscilloscope, just turn on both the sound bar and integrated TV speakers.

However the culprit is not the audio chain, which seems to have a deterministic latency, it's the video chain, which has a nondeterministic latency. In the default configuration the TV comes with a lot of stupid and absolutely awful video processing filters in the chain, for example 60Hz interpolation, all kind of noise reduction filters, a compressor, etc. All these add variable video latency, and there doesn't seem to be any kind of feedback between the audio and video chains.

The audio/video sync problem is a well known problem: https://www.google.at/search?q=sony+bravia+audio+video+sync+...

By turning as much as as the video processing off as the dreaded UI will let you, you can minimise the audio/video delay, but as I observed with an oscilloscope, you can never bring it down to acceptable levels. I have a extra hardware device in the audio chain that I can use to sync them up, but it's a PITA to use because each time I change input sources, or do anything really, the video delay changes and I have to reset.

Plus, one day I got a software upgrade, and all my careful setting of disabled the vomit-inducing video processing were reset to default.

I guess it works all fine if you have no standards.
How could they develop this without generics!
One of the great things that would come out of a market where no single proprietary OS is dominant is that hardware makers would be free to pursue enhancement of their offerings while not being tied up to the marketing strategies of third party.

I remember reading e-mail and browsing the web (and developing software) on a 64-bit multi-processor machine years before AMD64 appeared. Actually, even before Itanium was announced.
You are probably right, may be I was wrong on this article. In particular, I agree on this:

"Raising low productivity by enabling human creativity is what has mainly worked. By contrast, taking from the rich and giving to the poor helps only a little — and anyway expropriation is a one-time trick. Enrichment from market-tested betterment will go on and on and, over the next century or so, will bring comfort in essentials to virtually everyone on the planet, and more to an expanding middle class."

Till recently, I spent time and actually read articles on NYT (or similar) even if they had some keywords in title. And almost always, I found that author is supporter of labour party or Bernie Sanders or something like this.

This time, I was probably mistaken.
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How do you use HN?
That's actually not just a casual observation. There is robust research showing that in most cases bullies are often bullied as well.

Here's a description from '08 https://www.theguardian.com/education/2008/aug/29/bullying.s... but that was just from a quick google, I first learned it in a university developmental psychology course 10 years earlier (which is to say my source is actually peer reviewed research)

Turns out, the way to "win" in bullying is to "disengage" and let it go.
People like to level criticism at wine drinkers for subjecting themselves to placebo effects.

Now what about fish eaters? If you can't taste the difference between red snapper and tilapia, why ever buy red snapper? Obviously there are environmental and health reasons to choose one fish species over another, but is that doesn't seem to explicitly be the problem here.
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> if I have to choose between starvation and air pollution, I'll take air pollution

Exactly this is driving the push for GMO food crops in Asia and Africa. I have a few biologist friends who've been around on field trips and conferences, meeting people who are absolutely outraged at how certain people in the West are trying to ban/sabotage GMO food.

If you have the choice between mass starvation and death versus maybe hurting some part of the local ecosystem, it's really a no-brainer.
You work no more now than ever before.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USAAHWEP https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/EMRATIO https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/image.php?g=d5P

Very few people work non-stop and those folks tend to earn a lot of money (e.g. bankers), which kind of goes against your narrative.

I'm not sure what you mean by free speech, can you clarify? Are you referring to various government restrictions on commercial speech?
2 things :
1) I am making this developer discussion platform. Results of this survey will be helpful for the product design.
2) I will publish the results on HN itself after 48 hrs.
But it's a false dilemma. Ultimately, it's possible to reduce our emissions without reducing consumption, either of energy or resources.