skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Diamond Rio was amazing because it was seen by IT companies and the record labels as an illegal product. It spawned a lawsuit "Recording Industry Ass'n of America v. Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc.".
Without DMM winning this lawsuit (against all odds), there would be no MP3 players worldwide, there would be no iPod, there would be no iPhone, there would be no Apple as we know it today.
>Fire nuclear missiles.

Sorry... what?

Was there a unilaterally declared American nuclear strike I'm not aware of?
Ask HN: Automating office monkey jobs
My friend just got a new job at a health insurance claims processing company (SF). She told me today that her job mainly consisted of copy / pasting into an excel spreadsheet. This spreadsheet is passed to higher ups to be approved.

My first thought was that I could automate this. She actually doesn't believe me, which I think is funny.

How is this kind of thing going on in 2016, let alone in the first world - let alone in a 'tech hub'?

Does opportunity exist here? If so, what does it look like?
Well, I learned something new today, thanks.
I think some open-world RPGs have been laid out in exactly that manner. MMORPGs especially, but MMOs aren't always played for fun.
Europe is over-taxed and over-regulated and the US is, too. We're killing our golden goose as we speak. It was completely avoidable, but leftism just feels so good.

We should be hanging the people that caused this, but we're too nice and we won't until it all ends up like Venezuela.
> Y36511D War operations involving direct blast effect of nuclear weapon, civilian, subsequent encounter

If there's a nuclear war, I'm glad we'll still have the healthcare industry around to keep our priorities straight.
Google is the leader in large scale infrastructure for a single (or small set) of customers (Google, Youtube etc). You could call this "private hyper-scale cloud". AWS is the leader in vending that infrastructure to the rest of the world (a.k.a. public cloud).

I would argue that over time the second market will be much larger and more important than what Google built internally.
If we're assuming the existence of non-sucky smart glasses or contact lenses [1], why exactly would anyone use a smart watch?

[1] Smart contact lenses are such a crock. Seriously, guys, how do you think you're going to power these things?
I remember installing a FireWire card in my PC and buying some really shoddy software to copy MP3s onto it. Lots of PC owners were willing to jump through hoops to get the iPod.
You should see how much the Canadian government taxes you before you do anything.
> CD players that could play MP3s [...] bridged the "capacity gap"

But collecting and (forever) burning collections was a royal pain in the ass. Plus, CD readers would struggle and skip/stop/jump all the time as they bounced in your pocket or in your bag.

> The big problem was the interface

Absolutely. A lot of cheap Chinese sticks wouldn't even understand filesystem structures deeper than one level. To be fair though, the iPod Shuffle was basically like that and still sold very well; the reality distortion field was in full force at that time.
A Service Mesh for Kubernetes, Part III: Encrypting All the Things
Are some of the people in the video actually working in fo[n|r]tAwesome, or are they all actors? I'm curious.
I wished to find the static pages on github, so far no luck.
And can you guess what people said about it at the time?

http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apples-new-thing-ipod.50...

> iPod? iPoop... iCry. I was so hoping for something more.

> Great just what the world needs, another freaking MP3 player. Go Steve! Where's the Newton?!

> heres an idea Apple - rather than enter the world of gimmicks and toys, why dont you spend a little more time sorting out your pathetically expensive and crap server line up? or are you really aiming to become a glorified consumer gimmicks firm? :mad:

The more things change...
My manager did his thesis on this. Endace NICs, split traffic up and send to a cluster of IDS servers. Allows you to actually do line rate analysis. No need for FPGA/ASIC.
I'm pretty sure that's a good illustration of my point.
Do you know if anyone's done quantitative research on that? Should be pretty straightforward to sample some articles and see if that pattern is common? (I'm not trying to passive - aggressively suggest you're wrong, I'm honestly curious)

[ed: I should add that I've started to form a habit of looking at the revision history and talk pages of wp articles - in addition to references. And I really do think the added transparency is a very real added value over dead tree encyclopedia. ]
This comment should not be downvoted. It's correct in describing what's being asserted. And what's being asserted is the definition of the affirming the consequent.

I know this is HN and we love to point and shout the names of informal fallacies, but maybe learning some formal ones would be useful, too.
Not directly, but in acquisitions the price of the stock does help in all stock/part stock deals.
> are there other communities that discuss the creation and improvement of social networks?

Meatball Wiki[0] might be close to what you are looking for? From the about:

> Meatball is a LearningCommunity of the leaders of online communities--their proprietors, developers, mentors, and samaritans. We explore what it means to build an online community or, perhaps better, a community online. As it is a community, it is defined solely by the personal relationships that form it. Our breadth of interest is fairly wide as we take a holistic stance to community development. What differentiates us from many online meta-communities is that while we do talk about technology, we spend more time talking about sociology; and when we do talk about technology, we do so in a social context.

[0] http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/
It's done that for years. The BBC UK news site is the same, hugely infuriating.
https://chartups.com/topstartups/
Charts of the startups that VC tweet the most.
You can see the specific tweets too.
Elon seems to think that innovation means vastly over promising, and then expecting it all to work out via the triumph of his will, or something. It's an attitude that reeks more than a little of arrogance, as if he's started to believe his own bullshit a little too much.
The context of his comment is important here. The first iPod could only sync with Macs over Firewire, which only had been included in some Macs for 2 years at that point. There was a strong perception at the time that the iPod was not a standalone product, but a Mac accessory.

Indeed sales were pretty mild till USB and iTunes for Windows were introduced a few years later. Sales didn't really start to pick up till the 4g was introduced in late 2004.[1]

[1]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Ip...
Mergers raise prices, not efficiency
I watched a talk by Erik Meijer [1] recently where he mentioned that an implementation of a tuple such as (C# syntax mine, but illustrates the point)

class Tuple<T1, T2>
{
public Tuple(T1 t1, T2 t2) { }
public T1 Item1 => default(T1); // null for reference-types
public T2 Item2 => default(T2); // null for reference-types
}

is a perfectly type-safe implementation of a tuple that's completely nonsense. I'm curious as to how you might actually encode into the type system that the values that come out of Item1 and Item2 are actually the values you put in.

I would love to see tests at the interface level (or typeclass level for Haskellers) rather than the implementation level, to enforce that all implementations of an interface satisfy laws like this. In Haskell, this would mean that you could enforce things like monadic laws which we all assume to be true anyway.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMP6gI5mLHc
There is the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which bans cluster bombing outright, but conveniently neither Russia or Syria signed it.

Even if they did, international treaties/law banning weapons tend to go out the window in times of war. Take white phosphorus for example, which is banned by the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons for use as an incendiary weapon but has reportedly used by the US, Israel, Ukraine, Armenia, Taliban and Iraq under Saddam Hussein for such purpose.

It's a mad world.
> There are plenty of affordable places that you can buy a house at near minimum wage, but when that minimum wage job goes away there's nothing left.

So this aspect is orthogonal to what I addressed in my original comment, hence my example of "$1k/mo to everyone in SF" - ruling out someone still getting $1k/mo after leaving SF. Economic feedback most immediately applies to in-demand housing markets where one can't simply cheaply acquire their own land and put up their own structure. But these type of concentrated areas are where the bulk of our economic activity is now occurring.

The flip side of this is that if BI were at a national level, there would be a demand to move to rural areas where land was cheap, to reduce the largest rent. But since, as you point out, the economic opportunities are quite limited there such areas would be entirely reliant on BI. This would further cement the divide between urban "rat racers" and rural poverty, making it harder for those involuntarily caught in the latter to leave.

> Whats more likely is that a factory that previously paid 400 people $10 an hour would rather pay 20 people $30 an hour, and that 380 people have no negotiating power

BI won't restore those 380 people's negotiating power. Since their labor isn't demanded, they will effectively become wards of the state. With the economics I'm talking about, the 20 (40hr) people that are still employed gain bargaining power as they build liquid wealth. Rather than spending their entire life working, they demand fewer hours per week which actually restores demand for the other 380.

This seems less convincing in the context of your extreme example (before all 400 could work 2 hours/week, other factors will start to matter), but the point is that this is the trend that should have already been happening for the prior decade instead of overleveraging encouraging sink-or-swim overworking.

I'm actually not categorically ruling out the idea of BI. It's just that current calls for it completely ignore any feedback due to our official economic policy, and are actually just a continuation of the broken policy that has largely put us in this situation to begin with.
I would agree it's not enough time, and plenty of workplaces aren't practical for that. Psychology and medicine come to mind for privacy reasons, and lots of workplaces are generally not kid-friendly (construction sites, heavy factories...)

Getting kids to teach each other strikes me as impractical. Most of them aren't going to learn enough in a few days to teach a useful amount, and learning about a profession through the lens of an opinionated kid seems very sub-optimal. Plus, a year is a lot of time.

I have seen a lot of schools have "career day" type things, where parents come in and briefly discuss what they do. That's a little more direct and a less time consuming at ten to fifteen minutes a parent. This is valuable in proportion to the economic diversity and schedule flexibility of parents, though.
On a side note, a few years ago I worked with a company (as a project owner) that only works on a daily rate base. However, what they offered is that they created an estimate, that contained, among others a 30% 'risk buffer' and their offer was that if they use that up (in addition to the base bid, of course) then they'll reduce their price to their cost (0 profit) level. Which basically means that it only covers the salary of the developer (plus the office space, supporting staff, etc.).

That meant a 33% reduction at that time from their prices, which is nice to in case of a project overrun, and of course is a kind of a warrant for the client that the company will do its best that the project is on time and that the estimate is accurate.

I still use the same idea/format when rarely doing estimates for potential clients, but I'm not sure how well it works with freelancers. Whether they can figure out a '0 profit' reduced price for themselves. (Maybe that could be calculated based on the 'if I work 8 hours per day, without any holidays/sick leave/spending time on new project' assumption.) The point is that it should be convincingly low for the client, but not extra cheap.
"Why would I do that instead of just using a browser bookmark?", I guess? Bookmarks are effectively anonymous, which I like.
You're insane! It is not "free!" It can never be free. It is all who pays for it in their high-ass taxes! We're $20T in debt which isn't getting paid back. How far do you think the Fed can stretch this until it snaps? Bear in mind that if we have a collapse it will be a Mad Max type scenario--you'll wish we had just had a nuclear war. This is where we are and everyone just kind of nonchalantly goes along with their normalcy bias because they have never experienced any real hardship in their lives. It doesn't mean hardship isn't out there waiting for more stupid policy choices to seal the deal.
I think I'd put some safety glasses in the kitchen if I found myself chanting that.

I frequently put them on in situations where they aren't terribly necessary exactly to remind myself to keep my fingers out of my eyes.
Personally I like general climate of the US both literally and politically. The health care system needs an overhaul
makes it worse when you see how beautiful Aleppo used to be. Makes me sick to stomach thinking what some humans are capable of doing for money.
No, the UK embraced that idea before the US did (many of the specific rights and the legal language used to describe them are taken directly from their articulation in British predecessors); the formation of the US was largely a reaction by elites educated in British norms being unhappy that the ideas that were accepted in Britain were applied with less consistency in overseas territories with special legal status.

A practice, one might note, that the US has also continued.
As a landlord, I'd be pretty unhappy with tenants gardening on my land -- that's just an extra expense as I'd have to maintain it or convert it back when they leave. Maybe if they signed a long lease...
Think your retirement plan is bad? Talk to a teacher
No, the alternative is not to double down on madness. The alternative is to stop regulating healthcare out of existence while giving free handouts to billionaires.
Short positions are part of an efficient allocation of capital and efficient pricing. They also effectively bring down the price of this company - so you can buy more if you think it should be higher.

Some people think Tesla is a mess. Short sellers help keep bubblicious prices down and, if those people succeed, they'll invest in companies that have a better shot of actually succeeding.

Shorting is part of the spectrum: it goes from all of your money in a single stock to none to negative.

I think one could argue that by not buying more Tesla stock, you are also not merely passive. You also have a detrimental effect. ;)

Sources:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2010/12/financia...
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/07/in-...
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2008/09/in_defense_of_shor...
I priced it there, costs upwards of ~€3k
My extended family has a large percentage of Lexus cars. They have amazing reliability, fair resale values, cheap parts if something does break. Yes some BMW and Audi might be more fun to drive in some ways but I trust my Lexus to get around with rock steady dependability.
Everything is China's fault. Blame it on China, as the politicians like to do during each and every election. :)
>As it is, the subsidies don't really help folks as much as was planned, and even with the subsidies, the costs are rising quickly.

I don't think this is in spite of subsidies but beacuse of them. Just like the epipen mess, the less of a bill the customer sees the more you can raise it.
1/3 of San Francisco apartments are effectively under indefinite lease.
A lot of people have said this over the years and I still just can't fathom it. The iPod was much smaller than the Creative Nomad of that time, which had a 2.5" HDD and intentionally mimicked the size and shape of a Sony Discman. The iPod had more than double the battery life of the Nomad, which did not charge its batteries from the USB port, necessitating the carriage of the power brick. As for usability the Nomad had a quirk where its user interface would stop responding due to low power supply, but the player would not stop playing, leading to the somewhat hilarious but also very much not funny situation of not being able to stop the music.
Maybe you should read the article first:

"Why do we use A = 440 Hz? (spoiler: no Nazis)"
Thank God this is in the newspaper. Now Barack Obama will know about it. Maybe he can make a speech and end the war. I think there is a prize for that.
> Can I remove content after publishing?

No. Once a file has been hashed, that hash always equals that file. No. Matter. What.

Now, if no one else in the world has that file that equals that hash, then the content is dead.

But you can never remove things. It wouldn't make sense to do so.

>Do I have to have the daemon running forever?

You can run it as long as you want. But if you're the only hoster of certain images, then you quitting will mean those files can't resolve. But if your stuff is popular, other IPFS daemons will also provide bandwidth and capacity.

> Is it like pastebin for images? Am I anonymous or not?

It's like Pastebin, kind of. Your node is NOT anonymous, but the content itself can be. The content=hash , no matter who shared it.
There are actually tons of companies that do this, and it's a great business model that works well for everybody.
That DNS is decentralized does not really mean anything when you consider how easy it is to uncover where a site is hosted, and understand which points you need to hit to take a site down. Whilst we can do interesting things at the network level to mitigate (think Cloudflare, anycast, mirroring, etc), the services sitting behind DNS are still exposed like a sitting duck.

I mean if we really wanted to DDOS Cloudflare, we just exhaustively gather all the raw APEX/Naked IPs of their edge nodes then stress them, but I imagine Cloudflare doesn't advertise their list of IPs and they're closely guarded, so attackers are left in the dark. But such an attack is plausible.

What we do need are antifragile protocols like BitTorrent/IPFS/Bitcoin which infact reward swarm behavior, instead of punish it.
IHaskell – A Haskell kernel for Jupyter
Though, to be fair, Google is investing a lot in exposing some of its internal infrastructure as a public cloud. It's a relatively late comer to that game, but that game is also just getting started.
The dev is Swiss and holidaying in Spain.
It's odd how posts like these can bring things in perspective for idle observers. Before reading this, war was something that happened "somehow". A building somewhere gets bombed, but there's no context, it might as well have been a building floating in nothingness.

After reading this, you realize it's happening to people like you. One day, they were minding their own business, studying, going to work, doing everything you do, and the next their house got bombed and now they don't know whether they'll be alive next month.

The world sucks.
New Mexican - agree. You can dial the heat to whatever you want, but I'm there for the flavor.
I think the keys to winning people over are pretty simple, right? Kindness, authenticity, and making a good case for yourself (or whatever you're trying to persuade them on). People really don't respond well to any kind of manipulation tactic- you may find yourself winning the battle, but losing the war. I think if people can tell that you're owning a weakness in an authentic way, and then presenting a strength in an equally authentic way, that can be a good persuasion technique. However, if you're just bs'ing people to win them over, they will sense it, and you will fail.
I always thought it was amusing that the basic definition of the liter was taken at 4C, but that lab equipment was calibrated at 20C...
I usually use icomoon as well. Are there any benefits to font awesome over icomoon?
It would work so well for them if they give up the western "Assad must go" motto. But they prefer to pick up some random kids and take photos, because they are ISIS and Al Nusra after all.
I've never had a high opinion of teacher's unions, but the following makes my blood boil.

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"Had she been able to choose a simpler, less expensive plan instead of the broker’s costly offering, Ms. Jusinski would have approximately 20 percent more in savings, according to an analysis performed for The New York Times. One colleague would have a balance 50 percent fatter. The list goes on.

the people who do the most good in the world, spending their careers helping others in exchange for modest paychecks, often get the worst retirement plans. In fact, millions of people who save in 403(b) plans may be losing nearly $10 billion each year in excessive investment fees, according to a recent analysis by Aon, a retirement consultant.

“It’s a wealth transfer from those who don’t know any better — Main Street — to those who do: Wall Street,”

...

The N.E.A.’s Member Benefits group, a subsidiary, exclusively endorses a set of products from Security Benefit, a financial services company with nearly $32 billion in total assets that creates fixed and variable annuities and offers mutual funds. (The union’s program for teachers receives at least $2.7 million from Security Benefit each year, according to regulatory filings, which it said it paid to operate the program.)

The products include an array of mutual funds, various annuities — and one lower-cost option in which investors can choose inexpensive index funds without a broker’s assistance. But most new money from school employees is invested in the mutual funds sold by brokers, according to Gary Phoebus, chief executive of N.E.A. Member Benefits.

Fees in that program range from 0.35 to 1.25 percent. But that doesn’t include another layer of expenses for the underlying investments, which run from 0.59 to 2.11 percent, according to Security Benefit, and in some cases additional sales or surrender charges

For comparison, total costs at a typical large 401(k) generally fall under 0.5 percent.

Mr. Phoebus defended the program, saying it offered a wide variety of options “to meet the diverse needs and comfort levels of members.” The goal, he explained, was to balance fees while providing access to advice."

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They've sold out their own union members, in return for a paycheck from the company that's fleecing their fellow teachers. And when confronted about the damage they are doing to their own community, they double down with meaningless weasel words and excuses. This is absolutely shameful.
This isn't quite what the article is talking about, but the Model S itself is decreasing in usability, too, in my opinion. One critical component of car design is that all of the functions intended for use by the driver should be operable with minimum distraction. On the Model S, most functionality is on the touch screen, and, with the latest firmware update, almost all the touchscreen controls auto-hide. So now, to access the controls, you have to tap the screen to brig the controls back, wait a second or two, and then use the (already fairly attentions intensive) controls.

Of course, Tesla seems to think that the driver doesn't actually need to pay attention to the road...

Frankly, I miss the experience of driving my old Lexus. It wasn't fancy, but you could control basically everything by feel without looking away from the road.