skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> perform actions that were illegal

First, copyright is a civil issue, not a crime. While recent law may[1] have made specific types of mass infringement a crime, in general copyright infringement isn't "illegal". It only makes you liable for actual and statutory civil damages. I suspect this is even true in most jurisdictions.

> it probably did invite people [...]

This demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of copyright aw and how the Betamax case affected it. The case wasn't about "inviting" improper actions. There was no disagreement that people could use Betamax to violate copyright. Just like how you believe Google should be guilty of something[2], the movie industry believed Sony should be guilt of copyright infringement.

The allegation was that they had a right to effective protection of their copyright monopoly which video tape technology could undermine. However the court disagreed after Sony proved there were "significant non-infringing uses" for a Betamax tape recorder. From the majority opinion:

>> "The question is thus whether the Betamax is capable of commercially significant noninfringing uses ... one potential use of the Betamax plainly satisfies this standard, however it is understood: private, noncommercial time-shifting in the home. It does so both (A) because respondents have no right to prevent other copyright holders from authorizing it for their programs, and (B) because the District Court's factual findings reveal that even the unauthorized home time-shifting of respondents' programs is legitimate fair use..."

The fact that some people might use technology (Betamax, Google's button) to infringe copyright or break a contract isn't relevant, because that was not the primary, intended purpose of the technology. Because other, legitimate uses exist, the manufacturer of that technology is not liable.

I strongly suggest educating yourself a lot more about copyright and contract law actually work, because your arguments demonstrate a lot of misconceptions about copyright and fundamental errors about law in general.

> Google, on the other hand, should have known better

The only people that "should have known better" are the people that design their businesses to fundamentally rely on products they do no control or even have any contractual influence. Google will always be changing Chrome; expect that or find a way to remove that dependency.

[1] I'm not sure if it has been tested in court.

[2] Also, adding a save button to videos isn't tortious interference of a contract about renting videos either. Adding that button wasn't a tort ("wrongful act"), nor was it intended to affect a video rental business.
That statistic from Sony's press release feels opportunistic and cherry picked. Nikon have only released one FF camera in that window, and it costs £5,100. Sony released several and have momentum. I think when the successors to the D810 and D750 are released Nikon will pull ahead slightly.

In the longer term, mirrorless will overtake and pull further ahead of DSLR.
Signal Search
If it works like Remix OS probably you can. Just have your phone available and write the confirmation code from the phone into the computer.

HOWEVER, a whatsapp account can only be installed in one device so you'll have to choose. Or you can use the official website: https://web.whatsapp.com/
Can you back any of that with objective metrics? Right now it sounds a lot like what I hear from amateur audiophiles.
That's not bad, thanks. My caution is that this would exclude people who use one of the long tail email addresses. Their own domain, or some obscure provider. And I think specifically I would like to include those people. Certainly not let them feel their emails are "secondary citizens" - even tho when it comes to integrations like oauth they are secondary. Because I think the fringe has a story to tell and I want to encourage people from "interesting domains" to come.

At least that's what I in my unspoiled internet innocence want. Maybe it's not a good idea, but ... See what happens. Most probable thing is no one uses it, so maybe this is a "problem I'd love to have" at this stage. Thanks.
Intel's PCH has had an Ethernet MAC for years but no one seems to use it.

The GPU can steal power from the CPU cores and force them to throttle, which may explain the TDP.
Is it heroism if he's donating money obtained by crime?
> Because it's redundant.

While short vowel markings are left out, as long as different words can have wildly different voicings, it is hard to claim they are redundant. Rather, the reader is simply pressed to tell the vowel pointing from context, a skill that does not come without considerably more literacy education than for alphabet writing systems. The claim that diacritics are redundant would be more easily defended for languages like Romanian where the sounds distinguished by diacritics still usually stand in an allophonic relationship dependent on the word’s morphophonemics, but that is certainly not the case in Semitic languages today.

> How's this Arabic's fault?

The Turkic script wasn’t introduced to the Turks in a vacuum. It was brought in as part of a larger influence of Islamic culture, and because among Arabic and Persian speakers the script was almost always used without short vowel diacritics, the Turks inherited the same “right way” of doing things, disastrous as it was for literacy in their languages until the early 20th century.
It's worth noting this was published in 2000.

Interesting read though, I especially like "Failure free operations require experience with failure" <-- obvious, but easy to lose sight of.
Smartphones Are the New Cigarettes
I have a question, did you ask for or seek out mentors?
The camera most people have with them most of the time also makes phone calls. By the time a person brings a second camera, mirrorless and DSLR are approximately the same bulk. The photographer has something that uses a strap and perhaps a bag.

The price point of mirrorless cameras suggest to me that a substantial part of what is driving them is manufacturer's desire to introduce new systems for consumer sale. The problem with point and shoot cameras (also mirrorless) is the lack of follow on lens sales to create the idea of investment. Mirrorless cameras and their lenses are almost certainly cheaper than DSLR's to produce due to smaller size of bodies and lenses and the mechanical simplicity and smaller average sensor size of bodies. Those savings are not reflected in retail prices.
Happy easter to you too, send from the office at 1.26AM working on mission critical hardware failures.
I'm considering switching to notmuch in emacs, is there any advice or specific thing I should know beforehand ?
>> Kit lenses are often not what limits the quality of images people produce.

I did not say that though. I only said that they're not benefiting from the potential of their purchase.

Besides, a lot of consumers who buy DSLR kits are doing it on someone's recommendation. They aren't going to bother learning the craft of photography, and once the honeymoon period is over, they're going to get tired of carrying a bulky camera around and their whole purchase will start to collect dust.
Yes I agree this is a good idea because it's not too burdensome on me or on the humans. I'll think more about this if their is some easier or "better way" I'll do that but otherwise this might be what we do. Thanks.
I was thinking, "this is ridiculous; why can't they just import more potatoes?" and then I found this:

"She also cited regulatory hurdles, which limit the amount of imported potatoes that can be used in products, as partly responsible for the shortage."

No, it is primarily responsible for the shortage.
Many posts, but one discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8282923

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=How%20Complex%20Systems%20Fail...
Hero entrepreneurs become heroes for two reasons: 1) vision, and 2) the ability to coordinate massive effort in order to achieve it. Many people have vision, but don't have influence to make a change. Many people have influence but don't envision anything ground-breaking. And finally, the vast majority of people have neither vision nor influence. It's the combination of both which is extremely scarce and at the same time extremely efficient, which rewards bright individuals who have it.

It has to be noted though, that the same is also true for people with a criminal mindset that look to game the system. It's generally a hard problem to create laws that encourage "good" heroes and discourage "bad" ones.
Tiger Woods and Serena and Venus Williams are arguably the most iconic players in their sports in the last two decades and both are famous for overbearing fathers who forced them to practice from the time they could hold clubs and racquets.
> No one can actually work enough hours, or create enough value, to equate to £10m

It's a tiresome discussion. Why do we always bring up CEO compensations, but never Hollywood actors', professional athletes' or even painters' (or art traders' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._5,_1948)?

Salaries don't need outside validation by people why have no idea what the job involves, but try to assign some "value" to it anyway. It's a free market and CEOs don't get hired if they have outrageous demands and there are better candidates available.
Ask HN: What is the preferred platform for dev blog?
Hi!
I would like to start a developer blog and I'm looking for advice. The platforms that grabbed my attentions are Medium, Jekyll based-blog (hosted on github pages) or self-hosted WP blog. Is there anything else worth checking?
Renting out the market one could say. And therein lies the problem.
If you looked at the screenshots, they are severely outdated (like obsolete for about 10 years).

it's not the shiniest UI around but the current one is hardly ugly.
Agreed; you can also see the recent butter shortages in Japan for an example of the same issue.

As for why that happens; the farmers are (were?) a huge political ally for the LDP. (The TPP was going to be a huge change for that, but alas, it won't be happening..)
They're also famous as athletes and not creatives.
http://www.cwdm4-msa.org/

No where does this mention Facebook as a founding member. This dates back to at least 2015.

> We created a 100G single-mode optical transceiver solution, and we're sharing it through the Open Compute Project.

What gives? Looks to me like someone may be taking more credit than they deserve.

EDIT:

> The starting point for this specification is the CWDM4 MSA, a standard that was agreed upon in 2014 by several optical transceiver suppliers. It uses a wider wavelength grid (CWDM = 20 nm spacing) and, for many of the different technology approaches, does not require a cooler inside the module to keep the laser wavelength stable.

So Facebook took something that already existed. Tweaked it slightly by relaxing the constraints so that it works in the data-center only.
Wealthy people (generally) are able to pay very little taxes on their capital gains if they structure things properly. Depending on the citizenship they hold and the country they live in, this can go from absolutely nothing (i.e. Monaco) to 25-35% (UK, Belgium, Spain, etc)
The 80D is a popular camera with YouTube content creators and it allows 30 minute videos. I don't know why the limit - perhaps to ensure that anyone even more serious about video than what the 80 can offer needs to buy a dedicated video camera?
> I'm an European citizen and I don't think it's Ok for any agency to spy in others' banking systems (or in anthing for that matter)

As a European citizen how did you feel about Europe seizing any deposits over €100k from Cyprus' second largest bank when it decided it had debts that needed collecting? And then suggesting that this should be a 'model for future bailouts?'

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/25/cyprus-bailout...
And on the other end you have Todd Marinovich.
When that happens, I'll buy one. There are some difficulties with the distance between the sensor and lens (flange distance) being so different between DSLR and mirrorless but surely there will be a sensible solution at some point.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flange_focal_distance
That's funny, I disabled Adblock but still didn't notice anything autoplaying. I do share your frustration with the Harper's website though, it's a great magazine but their digital strategy is really backwards. I even went so far as to email the owner of the magazine about it, and he responded by mailing me a hard-copy of a journal article about how people absorb information more readily in print than online -- which I found strangely charming but it also implied that the problem starts at the top...
>>Gifted children who have a noticeable head start and whose skill development begins remarkably early _do not_ usually end up being game changing professionals in their respective fields.

>Really now?

Um, yes? Are you challenging the article's claim here? Depending on how strictly we're defining "game changing", only a small handful of people, even those who were "gifted" as children, ever accomplish anything really notable.

You can look at this [1] followup of "mathematically precocious" youth, for example. Around 10% ended up tenured at a top-50 university or became CEO of a Fortune 500 company. It is unlikely that anyone in the other ~90% is doing anything "game changing". Not even everyone in that 10% group is doing something "game changing".

[1] https://my.vanderbilt.edu/smpy/files/2013/01/Article-PS-Lubi...
I don't see too many dads at sporting events proclaiming "that's societies boy!"
Money borrowed from the Fed discount window is typically borrowed overnight and requires collateral.
The HTML doc title too. Changed.
Point 3 is really the reality for common programmers. Programming as a hobby is great. You get to work on what you like and you never have the time pressure to get code to function to specs. Hobby programming doesn't force you to work 24 hour days when the project falls behind and hobby programing doesn't force you to deal with someone else's spaghetti code. And the most painful, concentrating in a cubicle environment is hell- even if you can zone out with your favorite music. Modern large scale programming is looking more and more like assembly line work.

Programming as a profession can be great but don't get stuck in the bottom rung, don't let it take over your life and don't look at it with rose colored glasses.
Thank you very much for replying and pointing me to the right direction.
It was the "or indeed in C" that ended it for me right there (though that was compounded by the 'you want to load your 8-dimensional points from a file, where else could you possibly be getting them?' stuff, which shows that the correspondent has not done any scientific or geometric programming, or computer graphics, or video games, which are some of the main fields where performance matters most, so if someone is going to make a performance argument ... maybe he should actually know about performance programming).

If you want to talk about Haskell, fine ... I don't know anything about Haskell, though, and I am interested in high-performance programming, which is an area where Haskell cannot currently play (nor can any GC'd language). Making claims about how the performance of an operation in a slow language doesn't get any slower under certain circumstances isn't that interesting to me.
Autopilot dances after 8.1 software update
Cameras that can record more than 30 minutes are classified as professional video cameras and have to paid additional taxes.
The cliff is obviously with some statistical error.
That's because you have not tried the antispam solution that you have to pay for. To me gmail and its spam filter is a curse, I self host my own mail server and despite it being up to date to the latest recommended best practice, sometime for no apparent reason and for a limited period of time gmail will silently drop my legit emails into the spam folder of my recipient. I've grown to really dislike gmail for not caring about smaller servers who do their best to do it right.
A limit of 30 minutes is not so bad. I am an orchestra conductor with photography "enthusiasms" and would love to have a DSLR that could satisfy the requirements for both. For conducting, I need a camera that can reliably record 2 hours. I have a cheap Sony 1080p camcorder that does the job but the image quality is not great and does not have an external mic port.
With a Bayer sensor [1], multiple pixels are interpolated to determine the color and luminance of each output pixel...a typical digital camera can not capture two adjacent red pixels. On the other hand, print inks will tend to bleed and so it's hard to pixel peep a magazine image.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter
Serious question: Is any interesting software written in places like PWC?
I don't think bosses who want long hours are all that interested in actual productivity (which, especially with software, they don't seem all that capable of measuring anyway). I think they simply see it as a signal of loyalty.
The bigger thing is that, if taking advantage of a mirrorless format requires a new lens form factor, that means that Canon and Nikon effectively eliminate a huge lock-in to their system.

As soon as you've said you have to start over again (Maybe with some kludgy options for existing high end telephoto glass) you've basically eliminated whatever advantage you may have as an incumbent.

It's as if Microsoft introduced a great new operating system that couldn't run any existing applications. (This has been done in various ways like Apple with Intel but it's hugely painful.)
Maybe move out of gmail and its not so good UI/UX.
Another nice thing about RAW on the iPhone is that I've found the iPhone's built-in noise reduction to often be significantly too aggressive. I can get a lot more detail out, without objectionable noise, by carefully tweaking the noise reduction in Adobe Camera Raw. Now, I only would bother to do that with fewer than 1% of my photos, but it's sure nice to have the option.
I recommend using a static site generator and hosting on S3. It's the cheapest way to do it and will survive a hacker news storm. It's also easily managed in version control and zero maintenance. For extra points you could add a CDN in front of it but it's probably not worth it.

I'm a big golang user so I recommend Hugo for the site generator.
Users of every ideological commitment say similar things about Hacker News, so I think it's an optical illusion.

In any case, please don't post generic ideological comments here. The genre of the internet thread is unable to do anything interesting with them.
Was Robin Hood a hero?
That's it. I will patent the process of picking up rocks in order to throw them at things.

I think it's a great achievement to discover the CRISPER/Cas9 system, but just as a rock - it was just laying there.

It's absurd that genes can be patented, and the ethics is mindbogglingly disturbing - I could understand procedures and methods for using or analysing genes, but the actual code as found in nature?
That is what I've read. I would love if Canon or Nikon could create a setting that allows auto-restarts of video recording once the 30 minutes are up. And the next file automatically has the last X seconds of the previous file so that I can stitch them smoothly in an editor...

I know that Green Lantern can auto-restart video recordings, but I noticed that it can't really do that smoothly without dropping at least a second of video—at least on my T2i.
Sorry, I should have been clearer. As I'm aware you have the choice between several ways:

let foo : unit -> unit = <code>

let foo = function
| <pattern match stuff>

let foo = (function () -> <code>)

let foo = (fun () -> <code>)

I'm not an expert, but I guess this awkwardness comes from OCaml not having a dedicated function-declaration syntax; so if you do:

let foo = do_stuff + 42;

...then you're obviously just defining a variable, which is evaluated right away. Which means that the only way to define a "procedure"-type function that takes zero arguments is the above.

> What do you mean by "readline" support?

Readline is a library that adds a line editor to a REPL. It adds keyboard shortcuts (arrow keys etc.), history, autocompletion, and so on. Unlike almost every single REPL out there (Python, Ruby, Haskell, etc.), OCaml doesn't come with built-in support, as far as I've been able to determine. You have to run "rlwrap ocaml" to get Readline into your REPL.
Maybe we don't want potato chips anymore.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39613313
Most of the gmail users I know are a bit clueless and lacking in the technical domain and don't understand what an email client is because they've only ever used webmails. So I would not be surprised if they were unaware of pop and imap.
>4.

Yes. Bittorrent. It makes use of centralized directories, and centralized trackers, but is otherwise p2p. It suffers from everything weve come to expect from decentralized services. It is only able to survive because no startup can legally disrupt it (not to say no one's tried). In order to use it, a person first has to download a custom client. They also have to visit a completely separate website to get a list of possible torrents. Both the most popular client and the most popular website are riddled with obscene and intrusive ads. What it should have, if it wanted to compete with netflix and spotify, is a web client with the ability to play things instantly. Both those things are antithetical to bittorrent, and so it will continue to lose to the legal avenues.
Agriculture in Japan is very under-developed. You add the import restrictions and it leads to produce being twice as expensive (if not more) than most western countries. It also means lack of variety. And organic products are rare. Shortages are a thing bound to happen.

I was hoping for TPP to be accepted, but now I am just going to leave the country.
A rewrite with web technologies... please no.
Do you mean this seriously about letting the spammy through? If so please tell me why. I was cautious about blocking any messages at all, but I just thought, one problem people complain about on HN with any service that lets anyone post easily is how it mostly just ends up being spammers... And that seemed like something that annoys people and world make then not want to come back. It's a trade-off tho. Because some interesting messages might get blocked, and those interesting people get a awful experience of just having their efforts silently ignored.... Which is really terrible.

Actually what I originally intended to do when I decided I must use this stupid domain for something was to simply encourage everyone to add pleaseno@pleasespamthis.email to all spam lists they knew, and provide like a gallery obscura, a "hall of horrors" of all the world's spam ( making it "universally accessible and useful" of course... With search and letting people reply. )

But then I assessed this and thought... It's a good gimmick, but I would probably only go there for 15 seconds, scan, and then, depart. And I thought probably everyone else would do this too, because who is tolerant of spam?

I know having the spam "in a glass case" lessens its "threat potency", and that publishing spam in a central place and letting any people reply without anyone "spammer" being able to reply them back directly, sort of turns the table on the power dynamic of spam. And maybe that's a good thing.... But also maybe most spammers are not so "powerful" anyway. I didn't necessarily want to go attacking that group...

Ought I still do this? Is this a better idea?
Step zero: Get to know them. Then decide if you should back off or do any other of a thousand things that might help them.

All kids are different. Child rearing is as far from "one weird trick" territory as you can get.
or instead of trying to have bureaucrats and lawmakers tinker with the delicate balance of the market would just ... leave it alone. its really had for the market properly allocate resources when lawmakers keep raming through all there little pet projects from special interest.