skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think think you're making a distinction where there isn't one. For example, you can license music to TV shows, political campaigns, commercials, movies, and video games. Radio stations must pay royalties for playing songs. There are plenty of revenue streams for music outside of "selling it digitally or physically" and a subscription service.
I am not a lawyer, but "not bringing a patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook or its affiliates" suggest that anyone using React can't file a lawsuit against Facebook over patents and NOT vice versa as you suggest.
This is the most useful argument I've ever heard on this. Thanks!
Personally, I don't set the DNT header.

You have no way of knowing if any sites are actually going to comply, and it actually provides an extra datapoint to fingerprint you with.
I was reading it with javascript disabled and very confused - are there only code snippets and no visualization of the examples? After reading your comment, I went back and enabled javascript and now can see the examples.
No, you are confusing pay-per-view with a la carte. The a la carte world everyone was clamoring for was to not have to pay for those channels you didn't watch. You were always going to pay for a subscription for the channel.
Even a one man band can easily afford a dedicated server to keep an entire 10Gb db in memory at all times.
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The author covered this: "Facebook is not saying only that a licensee’s rights to use React will terminate if the licensee claims patent infringement by the React library itself. ... Facebook is using its publication of React source code as leverage to win some protection against patent lawsuits generally."
It was enforced technically.

Netflix has upped the game to the point nobody is able to provide a service to watch non-canadian Netflix in Canada, which renders Netflix useless.
Why is showing only pertinent share options unethical? Or is it the cross-site circumvention that you found unethical?
Waze continually gets me to work through back roads and side streets in 20 min, a trip that in traffic on the "normal" routes takes roughly an hour... Maybe one day cars will have GPS on that level built in... but for now... nope
No, and neither for Business.

However, after the kids finish the school, they won't have their education accounts and so they will open the free ones, because they are used to the Google ecosystem. You know, the first shot is for free.
I would be interesting to keep track of how common each particular fingerprint is. It could potentially be used to identify an individual user.
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the thing I keep failing to understand is: why do these devices need to block while updating? Can't they just use two (small) memory-banks and download the image to bank 2 while working from the first one and do one quick switcheroo in a couple of milliseconds?

(edit: question marks should mark the end of sentences which are questions)
However, the out of the box experience is pretty decent, and if you're focusing on the out of the box experience above all else, than you still don't understand what makes Emacs Emacs.

Then again, I never really got on with IDEs: Too complex, too hard to customize, too specific to one language (for the most part), too big a learning curve with not enough benefit.
Remember the promise/hope of "the long tail"? How did so many pundits get that so wrong, overlooking the battles for licensing value?
"Could have been implemented as part of the existing client" isn't the same as "Should have been implemented as part of the existing client".

I personally don't know much about either tool (don't do a ton of JS), but it's possible that fixing the existing client without either breaking backward compatibility or making it too complicated (multiple modes of operation) was too difficult or not worth it.

Also, I'm having a really hard time understanding the complaint about a new client. The value is in repository of reusable code, not the client. That you can use different clients with the same repository is a feature, not a bug.
For sure, but logged in == does have an account.
And, no doubt, there is a fixed overhead of dealing with with Swedish customers that is spread out over far fewer consumers than in the US.
It's hard to compete with a nice refurbished chromebook at Newegg for a $126 as opposed to a $1200+ MBP. If it breaks, gets lost or stolen it's no big deal. I understand the MBP can do a lot more but for the average kid or college student a chromebook is enough.

As an alternative if you really need a laptop there is always an old T420/T430 Thinkpad running Linux. It's a beast of a system and can be had for under $200.
thank India.
A la carte as it was brought up originally with TV was about unbundling all the channels and letting viewers pay per channel they wanted.

What you're describing is essentially PPV/VOD, and that exists now in iTunes, Amazon and Vudu.
I like the idea of having one bill for 200+ channels, a single remote/device, no need to change (ugh) apps or inputs on the TV when I go from one service to another. It seems like consolidation was a lesson we learned a few decades ago and are in danger of forgetting. I may only watch 10 channels out of 200+ but from month to month it's not always the same 10.

A service like Netflix that would augment real, current TV with a library of older shows/movies would have been worth a separate bill. (Had that library not shrunk.)

But one more channel of original shows? It's not worth subscribing to a new service and not enough for me to replace cable. And I'm not going to sign up for 4-5 of them. Even if their total cost is a little less than cable, the convenience lost is significant.
That is already well known quality[1]. I find Parent work even deeper, he pivoted the whole thing to make his main skill a second class citizen because that's what it was to be in this context.

[1] I regularly nerdgasm at LibreOffice releases reading how many thousands LoC they removed from the code base.

ps: beside code golf, I think there should be a patch golf thing. Try the smallest changeset that fixes or add a feature.
In their PATENTS file: https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS#L14-L2...

If you read it, it doesn't seem like GP's claim is completely true.
Actually I see it as

3. You can't sue Facebook because your app is similar to Instagram
> We really, really tried to do it the legal way and pay money for the content we wanted to watch, but it was far too complicated to even find a place to watch it, let alone actually successfully watch it.

Hey @Google, @Amazon, @etc., you have UX designers (tons of them). If this problem isn't fixed soon, more will do the same.
For Apache 2.0, read again the part that says "alleging that the Work or a Contribution incorporated within the Work constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement". This in other words means that the license termination happens when you sue for patents that are related to the Work or to derivative works.
And it applies to all contributors and isn't related to a specific company. Which is quite reasonable.

Now go read: https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS - you'll notice that this is a license related only to Facebook's patents and that Facebook will terminate your license if you sue them for any patents, even patents that are unrelated to the Work. And even more problematic, I'm not a lawyer, but it doesn't seem to me that this license applies to derivative works.

Big difference.
Will this one take a year to ship, too?
Agreed. Why pay Ford when I can get the update for free on my phone.
From the security we've seen in these devices, I'm assuming that would be both a financial and technical no-go. The standard practice appears to be buying a minimum-cost board and loading it up with some stolen open-source software - sensible hot-swapping would be far too demanding for that.

(But yes, that really should be the case. It could also support elegant failures back to the previous firmware version.)
I think so too. Public networks are networks full of hackers and NSA agents. The VPN-like protocol should be built into device so it doesn't accepts any packets not coming from its home network. And VPN (unlike SSL) allows encrypting traffic for external obverver while keeping it plaintext for owner.
Give that to the kids and it will entertain them for hours. By hours I mean fifteen minutes.
When I bought my latest car, navigation package included few safety features I wanted to get, so I had to get them to get somewhat safer car. My car -- Mazda, comes with free 3 years of map updates. I am yet to update it, because I'm lazy. It also comes with optional paid for traffic service. Why do I need to waste my money on that, when I can get free (I know, I know) Waze, Apple Maps or Google maps which will get me where I need to get avoiding traffic. Despite driving 2016 model year vehicle, I GPS/entertainment center feels like from 2010 or so. So yes, I use my phone for navigations most of the time.
This looks reductionist and therefore most likely is false. Feeling uncomfortable has some objectivity to it, and no amount of "transcendence" can change that which is objective.

I was talking about less fundamental truths, such as the realization that one's parents are idiots, life is being wasted, every minute a person is getting murdered somewhere in a most horrifying way, girlfriend is getting ugly, etc. Try to get comfortable with that...
Yeah, it's pretty sad. I was ready to buy a brand-new Subaru a couple years ago, but they mandated the shitty touch screen in the dash on all new models. Ended up with a used Mazda3. I was very interested in the new ND Miata, but they mandate the dumb LCD screen in the middle of the dash. Nope, not doing that. Seems early 2010s are the last of the good, pre-technology cars. Hopefully the self driving ones come soon before those models are worn out.
I carry a pocket-sized notebook everywhere. Moleskin and Leuchtturm brands are good, but the $2 knockoffs at Wal-Mart/Staples/etc are fine, too.

An added benefit: Jotting down a note on paper appears to be more socially acceptable than taking notes on a phone (might be OK if you can touch-type on a touchscreen, but I can't). A notebook is self-explanatory.

For organization, I use some basic pieces from the Bullet-Point Journal method: A dot in the left column for general notes, a circle for events, a square for to-dos. Put a check in the square when done, an X if I decide not to do it, and a > if I've moved it to OneNote or something.

Recently I've been experimenting with the GTD system. Someday I'll write a blog post about it, but here's the gist: Thoughts go into the notebook as they occur, so I can get back to work/etc. Periodically I review recent notebook entries and move them to projects and project tasks pages in OneNote, then put next Step to-dos for each project in Wunderlist. It's a work in progress.

It's worth mentioning that the OneNote app in Windows Phone 10 is much improved over the version in Windows Phone 8.1 -- actually, it's exactly the same as the app version on Windows 10, and works just as well on the small screen.
Ah I was thinking of Stockholm :)
I think they've figured out that the people who subscribe and stay subscribed are people that binge watch tv shows, not people who sign on every once in awhile to watch movies. I don't think they're interested in competing with the PPV movie market.
Yes it would totally make sense for facebook to effectively kill react (wasting millions of their paid engineering hours) and forever taint their developer community by using that clause to sue another company just because they compete. </sarcasm>

Hypothetically if you ever grow so big and frighten facebook to that degree, migrating off react would be an easy problem to solve.
I agree on the chromebooks are at a different point in the product cycle vs macs. (I am also writing this from a PC).

And it makes total sense for chromebooks to be destroying Apple this quarter!

But if one is going to write an article saying that happened then have data. There is no chromebook or iPad sales data in this article.

My comment was more a complaint about finance journalism and analyst panderings.
> The cost of producing content is mostly irrelevant.

How is this irrelevant? Everything about making the product costs money and if there is no ad revenue they have to charge for it elsewhere.
I always appreciate that Hulu has its Criterion collection section.

And I very recently signed up for Seeso for $4 a month because I was craving some Monty Python's Flying Circus. I don't plan on keeping it long term, maybe just a month, to get it out of my system.

And then I still end up digging through shitty cheap roku channels occasionally to find stuff. Mostly just schlock, but I saw, for example, niche titles like Millennium Actress, Ninja Scroll, and Ghost in the Shell 2 on free services.

The idea of one streaming service that has it all is dead, but it kind of reminds me of DVD bundles at Walmart. 10 Sci Fi movies for $10, and one of them will be Existenz and the rest will be straight to TV or DVD.
I was thinking the same. Our Salesforce / Marketing cloud consultancies are in the same sort of range as described. I am doing the job for a fraction of the price (well my normal wage), but it is taking me a fair bit longer, as I am having to learn a fair bit about these (awful) systems as I go.
You might want to check out Apple CarPlay

http://www.apple.com/ios/carplay/
This is why I use 'browser isolation', which is a way to separate different types of surfing activity into different buckets. Currently the best way to do this in Firefox is to create multiple profiles, or in Chrome, you can simply add a different user/persona.

Having one profile, or even an entire dedicated browser just for Twitter/FB ensures the login is not spilled over into other sites. If you're surfing the web heavily, I would recommend spawning a new private window so cookies, and other artefacts are not bleeding into your session.

It sounds like common sense, but many people have cookies and login information persisting for years at a time in their browsing sessions. The Mozilla Firefox team are planning to introduce a feature which makes compartmented surfing sessions a lot more user-friendly by separating sessions into tabs. Currently, the 'profiles' feature of Firefox is not user friendly and requires a bit of tinkering with the filesystem.
I for one would be happy with either:

Pay per view (multiple sources ok)

Or

All-you-can-x from one place like Spotify

What I don't like is paying monthly to a number of services.

Also (honest question, I might send money Apples way if the answer is yes:)

Do iTunes work standaloneon Windows (and preferably Linux) and can I legally watch stuff there even if I sit somewhere in Europe?
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That doesn't work universally, for example when your device is at home and your smartphone is in another country. Using VPN allows to build a secure network over public infrastructure.
Shouldn't a browser not send cookies when the request comes from a different domain? That would seem like the most sensible solution to me. Unless somebody can show a caveat of course.
If this is your first time hearing about caniuse, then you likely also want to know about html5please.com as well; if you haven't already.
Same here in bangalore, India. Price is USD 0.052/L delivered.
You are expected to live 40.1 years as a citizen of India

Well that is depressing.
Yeah honestly banana or cherry is just screaming for a much simpler plain old radio input.
Yeah I'm not sympathetic. The alternative to finding (and failing to find) a service to watch the show could possibly be - not watching it? The conclusion 'naturally we then had to steal it' isn't entirely justified.

Shoplifting is easy and convenient too. Next time you forget your wallet at the corner store. Just sayin.
To shoot down a missile with a laser, you need a segment of light about 30-50 cm long, so the target doesn't move too much whilst burning a hole in it. In that little segment has to be the energy of at least a .50 BMG, so 20k joules of energy. In a portable form that can fire repeately, reliably. That's doable, but not easily.
Are you talking about this part?

> if Facebook or any of its subsidiaries or corporate affiliates files a lawsuit alleging patent infringement against you in the first instance, and you respond by filing a patent infringement counterclaim in that lawsuit against that party that is unrelated to the Software, the license granted hereunder will not terminate under section (i) of this paragraph due to such counterclaim

And, please, point in which part of the file you linked where is said that your license is terminated if Facebook sues you
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Hypothetically, when you're found to infringe a patent for a product that was already deployed, then the damage was already done and migrating at that point won't save you ;-)
If it's important to the conversation, the commenter can point out their own past experience (which Animats did by saying "As one of the early workers on network congestion").

Just because it's difficult to remove the "person" from the "message" in face-to-face conversation doesn't mean we can't strive for something better online.

I have a very relevant example! A few days ago I was reading a comment here about someone that drinks tap water and how (anecdotally) they are fine, and they didn't understand the craze with bottled water. Being completely honest, I made a "mental picture" of him as a mid 20's "hipster" silicon-valley type. And I agreed with his overall message. But halfway through his comment, he had a link to his "beverage container of choice" that he drinks water from. I read the whole comment before opening that link. I had assumed that it would point to a glass and leather "artisan" water bottle... The link pointed to something similar to this:

http://assets.suredone.com/1766/media-photos/sd009014-vintag...

After opening the link, my whole view changed. Suddenly that "mental image" changed into a mid 40's overweight sysadmin, and (as much as I'm ashamed to say it), I suddenly "trusted" their message less...

I realized what had just happened, and I realized that just thinking I knew who this person was affected my thinking. If I had known that person's age, size, gender, profession, etc... Would I have given their message a second thought? Honestly I don't think I would have. And that makes me feel like shit. I have prejudisms (is that a word?) that I don't consciously know I have, and if possible I'd like to not apply them. Reading HN comments as faceless-nameless comments helps me read the message with none of that "baggage". And if I later read about the person behind the comment (and learn that it's not what I expected), it can go a long way toward reducing the prejudice that I may have that I don't even know I have.
There are two issues here, the fragmentation of the services, and poorly implemented services.

I have really really tried to use Google Play for video because it seems to work on the broadest array of devices, but the service itself is a second rate experience. Too many clicks, laggy unresponsive UI, silly JS driven pages that require reloading in order to start working again...

I too really want to do things the way that supports content producers, but the middlemen are doing such a poor job that it's difficult to get my money to them.
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I found that for my Ford Edge, I basically have to shout at it before it understands me. My wife laughs at me every time.
I sat down with someone not too long ago who is leading the engineering effort on these for a Fortune 500 defense company. It's definitely a thing. It's interesting hearing about the types of materials that needed to be invented to hit a speed like mach 6 without completely disintegrating.
Not really. You're expected to die in childhood. Survive that, you'll likely live about as long as anybody anywhere else.
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There arent currently alternatives in the x86 market. Certainly Intel were the biggest back then, but the market share was around 70-75% not 85%+ that is it now.

I remember when this FDIV bug happened in ~94-95, at the time there were plenty of x86 manufacturers. AMD presented probably the biggest competitive threat to Intel. IBM, Cyrix, VIA were all cheap-and-cheerful CPUs that found their way into plenty of office desktops via OEMs.

AMD were a serious problem for Intel around 1998-2001 with their K7 architecture. The Athlons and Durons were incredible bang for buck and owned the desktop high-end mindshare. Anyway that's a discussion for another time :)

Back to phones - Samsung dominate the Android phone space. Time will tell if people move away but history suggests they'll be perfectly fine. People still drive Toyota despite product defects killing people.

I guarantee in 12 months people wont give a shit if the latest Samsung phone is a top performer. Phones are a status symbol. Safety rarely trumps fashion in the consumer retail world.
Their website makes a bad impression on me:

- Who are you?

- What makes it different?

- How does it make it different?

- What is expected of me? (Hint: "Give it a try" is not a good answer.)

- Cannot scroll because of weird scroll-component in the middle.

- Fonts are way too big. Too much whitespace, low signal-to-noise ration.
LG G2 to a Nexus 5X.
Good question. Could be that Apple is more hardware bound and music distributors would need to be quite heavily compensated in order be exclusive apple and miss out on all those people with android phones.

It could also be that people are more willing to make platform purchasing decisions when it comes to video and game exclusivity but not music. This would lead to lower interest to buy exclusivity by the platforms, and thus having full market coverage is more economical for publisher.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12686387
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I really love the new development being done to simplify cloud deployments of stateless horizontally scalable services.

Once Serverless supports other λaas offerings I think this will really take off.

In addition to the big boys (Amazon, IBM, Google, Microsoft), I'd love to see some alternative stable open source providers come about. Maybe something built on top of kubernetes or docker swarm.
Vudu.com, which has been giving out free credits every week via T-Mobile, also has a pretty good chunk of the AFI top 100.
Nginx really is more of a swiss army knife web tool. It does a lot besides just load balancing and reverse proxying, and those things it definitely does better than HAProxy. AFAIK, you can't serve static assets with HAProxy, and HAProxy doesn't have any kind of caching built in, in addition to dozens of other features of Nginx that most people probably don't even know about.

In the HA load balancer category I think HAProxy is clearly a more capable tool since that's all it's supposed to do, but there's not really a simple answer to your question.
I cited my experience with the new Rav4 satnav in a recent blog post [1] on the difference between "requirements" and "needs". Tweeted it with "If you've lost something in your modern Toyota, it's probably hiding behind a settings menu". The current version isn't terrible; the version the car was delivered to me truly was. Inexcusable. Although there are benefits to integration, unless the delivery model changes to a more phone-like one I can't see myself buying an built-in satnav again.

[1] https://blog.agendashift.com/2016/10/06/better-user-stories-...
Bodybuilders avoid it due to claims of increased oestrogen production. I haven't investigated this myself but unlikely most people are going to be adding 200+ grams of it to their diets